Soon after Malin was occupied 120 people, mostly Jews, were taken from their homes to the territory of the town's chair factory, which was later referred to as the furniture factory. They were kept outdoors in the factory yard for several days and then were murdered. The adults were shot while the children were buried alive. According to some sources .the victims included 30 women with young children. The exact date of the murder operation remains unknown. Some sources say the victims' bodies were taken to Shcherbov Yar and buried there.

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Most of Malin's Jews were shot in the course of a number of murder operations during August and September 1941. Among the victims were children and old people. According to Soviet reports, the Jews who were shot (numbering between 670 and 1,000) were buried in five mass graves in the area of Shcherbov Yar, behind the local entertainment park.

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