In the early July 1941, the exact date remains unknown, the Jewish men of Kolodyanka were taken to the forest near Dubrovka village, which was about 12 kilometers away. There they were first tortured and abused and then shot to death. The number of the victims was approximately one dozen (a higher figure was obviosly exaggerated). Some sources report that a non-Jew was shot there too -- for being sympathetic to the Jews. The victims' bodied remained in the forest until local residents buried them.

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In late August – September 1941 the ghetto was surrounded by the Germans. The Jews were first divided into two groups, those who were above the age of sixteen and those who were under this age. Then the inmates were told that only mothers of children under the age of one would remain in the ghetto, along with ones under the age of sixteen. The rest of the Jews were taken from the ghetto to a pit located 600-700 meters away, in the field opposite the railway station. There they were shot. According to some testimonies, on the same evening the rest of the ghetto population was taken to the same murder site and shot there as well. Other testimonies state that the shooting of survivingJews was postponed to the following day. According to Soviet reports, the total number of the victims was 250, at least four dozen of them were from the village of Kolodyanka.

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