On January 21, 1942, about a dozen Jews from Zolochev – mostly women and children, members of the local Polyak, Brodskiy, and Zelman families; the Jewish wife of a local auxiliary policeman, Sara Selivanova (née Mikhnovich), with their little son; a family of Jewish refugees named Turovskiy from the city of Cherkassy, and a refugee from Bessarabia named Tsiryulnik – were taken out of the apartment on Molochnaya Street where they had all been concentrated a few months previously, and led to a vacant barn on the outskirts of the town. On the evening of the next day, they were taken further east, to the ravine known to the locals as “Kovshik” (Ladle), beyond the railway tracks, to the right of the road running southeast toward the town of Dergachi. There, they were shot dead by local auxiliary policemen. The bodies of the victims remained unburied for several days, and possibly even several months.

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