In September – October 1941 or, according to some sources, in August 1941 the Jewish men of Kirovograd were arrested in their homes or on the streets. They were taken to Kushchevka village, where they were kept and used for forced labor. Later, probably on October 25, 1941 the victims were taken in groups west and north-west of the city to Krepostnyye Valy (meaning "fortress embankments"), where they were shot in a trench. Some sources report the number of the victims as about 370.

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On September 30, 1941 the Jewish population of Kirovograd - women, children, and old people - were taken to several collection points in various parts of the city. Then the victims were loaded in groups onto trucks and taken along Rovenskaya Road to an anti-tank trench. There they were shot; the younger children and old people were beaten with sticks and then thrown into the pit. According to different sources, the number of the victims in this murder operation ranged from 3,200 to 4,000.

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During the occupation the former building of the teacher-training college on Polevaya Street was used as an SD Prison. Among its numerous inmates who were shot nearby were Jews from Kirovograd - men, women, and children. Some of them were probably people who had survived the mass murder operation in late September 1941. In April 1942 local policemen shot 23 Jews in the inner yard of the prison. The bodies were thrown into an anti-tank trench outside of the prison premises. Other sources report about 100-120 Jewish prisoners being tortured, abused, and later shot in anti-tank trenches near the prison.

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