On October 7 (or, according to other sources, around November 7), 1941 the Jews of Dolinskaya were collected near the local administration building. Prior to their collection they were ordered to take with them their good clothes and a supply of food on the pretext that they would be sent to Palestine. The Jews were taken to a bomb crater in the garden belonging to the county authority head who, according to some sources, wanted to have the Jews shot in his garden. At the crater edge the people were divided into two groups - the men and the women and children. First the children were shot, then the men, and after that - the women. The shooting was carried out with submachine-guns, under the supervision of the Ukrainian authorities. Those wounded were pushed into the crater together with those already dead. Most of the victims were old people, women, and young children. The estimated number of victims ranged from 53 to 66. On the same day the Jews' clothes were distributed among the families of German colonists.

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