Early in the morning of March 4, 1942 a German detachment arrived in Novy Karagurt. All the Jews living in the village were ordered to appear at the school building but to leave their belongings behind. Between 60 and 75 Jews and a Russian man married to a Jewish woman came to the gathering point. There all of them were lined up in a column and taken to a lime pit about one kilometer from the village, in the direction of Saki. At the murder site each victim in turn was taken to the edge of the pit and shot. The first to be shot was the Russian man. The Germans gave him the opportunity to be released but he decided to share the fate of his Jewish family. The small children were poisoned and their bodies thrown into the pit. Two Jewish boys tried to run away but were shot dead. Afterwards, the non-Jewish inhabitants of the village were forced to bury the bodies.

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