The first murder operation against Starodub's Jews took place either on September 25 or October 1, 1941. Soviet documents reported that about 400 Jewish men of all ages were separated from the other ghetto inmates and taken to the Goloye Boloto tract, where they were shot to death. According to German reports, the group of Jews shot at that time consisted of 272 Jews, both men and women.

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The ghetto inmates who that remained alive after the first murder operation and survived the harsh living conditions in the ghetto were shot, according to Soviet sources, on March 1, 1942. The shooting took place on the outskirts of Starodub, in Belovshchina [neighborhood]. Before the shooting the victims were forced to undress and then taken through the snow toward the shooting pits. According to German sources the number of the Jewish victims was 200, men, women, and children. The Soviet sources report the figure of 800 and that the victims were women and children.

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