In November 1941 most of the Jews of Khmelevoye County were rounded up and kept under guard with no food for five days. On the sixth day the victims were taken to the area of the local machine tractor station, where they were abused and tortured to death or shot. Their bodies were thrown into a nearby well. The number of victims is reported to have been 137. In addition, according to some sources, in December 1941 a Jewish man was tortured by local policemen and later hanged in the center of Khmelevoye. A sign attached to him said that he was a Jew who had ties with the Bolsheviks.

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