Fat Boiling Facility near Golovanevsk
In late September 1941, one of the murder sites of Jews from Golovanevsk who had been assembled in the Pioneer club was located about one kilometer to the northwest of Golovanevsk, in two fat-boiling pits two meters apart. The Jewish victims were thrown into the pits alive. When the pits were full, the [rest of the] people were shot to death from sub-machineguns.
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Volovik Ravine
On September 23-25, 1941, Golovanevsk's Jews were collected in the Pioneer club. Then they were murdered at three sites. Some of the Jews were taken by Gestapo members to the Volovik Ravine about one kilometer northwest of Golovanevsk. There a pit had been prepared. The Jews were unloaded from the trucks and forced to kneel facing the pit. Then they were shot to death from sub-machineguns. After the shooting the pit was covered with earth.
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Golovanevsk Well
On September 23-25, 1941, some of the Jews who had been collected in Pioneer club were shot by Gestapo-men in a deep well located about one kilometer northwest of Golovanevsk. The victims, according to some sources, mostly young children, were thrown alive into the well. When it was full, the rest of the victims they were shot to death from sub-machineguns and their bodies covered with earth.
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Consumers' Cooperative Yard in Golovanevsk
In February 1942 the second mass murder operation directed against the Jews of Golovanevsk was carried out. The shooting took place in the yard of the local consumers' coop. Before the shooting the victims were rounded up by policemen. Then the Jews were taken by a police investigation officer to the yard, to a cold storage pit. There the local police chief and his deputy immediately shot the Jews and threw their bodies into the freezer. The number of victims is estimated to have been 166, including 49 children.
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