After occupying the village of Staro-Shcherbinovskaya, the Germans rounded up the local Jews and forced them to perform hard and dirty work. On September 8, 1942, the Germans arrested some twenty Jews and political opponents of the Nazis (e.g., Communists and Soviet POWs), and led them from the German police station to a pit that had just been dug by POWs. The victims had to strip naked and lie down in the pit. The German soldiers then proceeded to shoot them with machine guns. Those who had merely been wounded were finished off with rifle butts. Afterward, the German occupiers covered the pit with a layer of soil, left their shovels and bullet casings there, and looted the victims' clothes and possessions.

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