In January 1942, the German military and the local police began to round up all the Jews of the Lypova Dolyna County. Among them, there was one Jewish family from Synivka, which consisted of four persons, including children. The Jews were taken to the Goncharskiye Yarki ravine in the town of Gadyach, in the Poltava District. There, they were forced to strip naked, whereupon they were shot dead with machine guns. They were buried there, along with other Jews from the Synivka County and the town of Gadyach.

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German reports state that there were 120 Jews left in Gadyach in mid-November, 1941. According to other sources, on January 9 or 10, 1942 dozens of Jewish women and children were collected in the center of the town. The children were forced onto a truck. A Gestapo man poisoned them with morphine ointment put under their nose. After that the children were taken to Goncharskiye Yarki and, half dead, were buried in pits. The women and old people were taken separately by truck to the same location, forced to undress, and then shot. Other sources report the number of Jewish victims from Gadyach, together with Jews from Zenkov, as 280. Another murder operation was conducted in April, 1942. The Germans issued an order about the supposed evacuation of the Jews for resettlement. Most local Jews assembled at the collection point and were taken by truck to Goncharskiye Yarki. These people were shot the same night. Those who did not appear at the collection point and hid in the town were tracked down and shot outside of the town.

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