On September 24 (according to other testimonies, on November 18 or in December) 1941 local Jews were told that they were going to be sent to Palestine and ordered to hand over their valuables, ostensibly to be sent along. Afterwards, about 200 Jews of Sirotino were taken by Germans, with the help of the local auxiliary policemen, to a place known as Gniloi Most, situated between Sirotino and the village of Byvalino, on the road connecting Sirotino with Shumilino. They were taken in small groups to the edge of a sand quarry and shot dead there. Before the shooting the local auxiliary policemen who carried out the massacre tore the gold teeth out of the mouths of their victims. According to Soviet reports, 130 of the victims were buried alive.

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