In December 1941 at night the local police entered Jewish homes and took out the Jews, forcing them into the barn of a cattle yard. The next morning they were taken to the trench that used to be a fat boiling pit behind the Osipenko-Zaporozhye railway line 1.5-2 kilometers from the town. They mostly consisted of old people, women, and children. They were undressed next to the trench and shot by the local police of Pologi and by members of Sonderkommando 10 or, according to some sources, members of Sonderkommando 12. The number of Jewish victims is estimated to be as many as 70 families; other sources report about 100 people. Some sources report shootings of Jews together with non-Jews that probably took place at the same murder site during the following months. February 4 and March 28, 1942 have been given as dates of mass murder operations. Until May 1943 children from mixed marriages were separated from their non-Jewish mothers and imprisoned. After that they were either shot in Pologi or sent to Zaporozhye to be shot.

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