On August 9, 1941 between 100 and 300 Jews (according to some sources mostly men), together with "Soviet activists," were taken to an area beyond Yurovka village, to the Ladiva Vilshina grove. They were shot and their bodies were thrown into pits, which according to some sources they had been forced to dig.

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In September (according to some sources on September 13), 1941 most of the Jews of Lyubar and nearby villages were shot at the Peschanoye Tract. According to some sources 1,199 Lyubar Jews and 180 Jews from nearby villages were shot in this murder operation. Later, on October 31, 1941 or, according to some sources, in November 1941 the remaining 250 Jews, who had been held at the former orphanage of Detgorodok, were shot at the same murder site by policemen from the nearby town of Chudnov.

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