On September 25, 1941 local auxiliary policemen collected Maydorf Jews of all ages and both sexes at the village store, telling them they were going to be resettled. The Jews were locked in overnight and the next morning were taken, some on foot and some by cart, to the area known as Vasilyevskie Otruba, several kilometers south of the village. There, at an abandoned well, the victims were forced to undress and divided into the small groups. They were then made to lie face down at the edge of the well and shot dead. The perpetrators of this massacre, which claimed the lives of about 160 Jews, were Germans, members of Einsatzgruppe D or of the Feldgendarmerie (military police), and local auxiliary policemen.

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