According to one testimony about 100 Jewish men who were arrested in September 1941 were locked up in the building of the former Jewish orphanage in Zvenigorodka and, after being beaten and humiliated, were taken by truck to the forest near the village of Khlipnovka, about 5 kilometers north of Zvenigorodka, and shot dead, apparently by members of Einsatzgruppe C.

More information: Yad Vashem

Early in November 1942 about 150 Jews who were taken from Zvenigorodka and from other localities to the Nemorozh labor camp (located 5 kilometers northwest of Zvenigorodka) and about 50 Jewish inmates of the Smilchintsy labor camp (further north) were taken to the Gubskiy Forest, a huge forest on the border between Zvenigorodka and Lysyanka Counties (north of Nemorozh and south of Smilchintsy), where they were forced to strip naked and then shot to death in small groups at a pit that had been prepared there. The perpetrators were apparently members of the German Security or Order Police and local auxiliary policemen.

More information: Yad Vashem