The murder operation against the Jews of Krasnogorovka was carried out on February 22, 1942. On that day, the Jews were rounded up on the pretext of re-registration, and then taken to bomb craters in the vicinity of Krasnogorovka. Other sources maintain that the Jews, along with Soviet activists, were first taken to the village of Maryinka, where they were locked in the local club building and severely beaten. They were then brought back to Krasnogorovka in trucks. According to the Soviet reports, the shooting was carried out by a Gestapo unit that had arrived from Stalino, as well as by some other German servicemen. First, the Germans shot the little children with pistols and threw them alive into the bomb craters, while the rest of the victims looked on. Some of them went insane when they saw this. The adults were then led to the edge of the bomb craters and shot, but some of them remained alive and were only wounded; these, too, were thrown into the crater together with the dead ones, and were then finished off with additional volleys of submachine gun fire. Other sources indicate that the shooting was carried out in a trench behind the dormitory of the local trade school. According to Soviet reports, this operation claimed the lives of seventy people, including twenty-five children.

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