Apparently some of Pershotravensk's Jews were evacuated with the electro-technical porcelain factory where they worked. About 13 Jewish families remained in the village. According to documents from the factory's museum, the Jewish men were killed on August 25, 1941. According to these sources about 40 men were shot near the kolkhoz garden on the western outskirts of the nearby village of Glubochok. Their families, the women and the children, were taken to the ghetto in Baranovka. Other sources date the shooting to March 1942 and estimate the number of victims as 75 and report that the men, women, and children were murdered together. Some Jews were probably also shot at the local (non-Jewish) cemetery.

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