According to several sources some Jews escaped being killed in the first mass murder on August 21 and 22, 1942. The Jews were systematically searched, arrested, and taken to the measurement-equipment factory at No. 5 Zipovskaya Street. They were forced to enter gas vans and the vans drove to Sovkhoz [State Farm] Number 1 of Krasnodar, outside the city. Apparently 30 to 60 Jews were killed in this way between December 1942 and February 1943.

In the same time period, the German mobile killing squads, the German military and the local police forces searched for the Jews in the throughout Kaganovichi County and gassed them to the death at Measurement-equipment factory in Krasnodar as well. 64 Jews and Karaim and buried them among the other Jewish and non-Jewish victims at the factory in a pit.

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On August 17, 1942 the Germans ordered the Jews to report at No. 30 Ordzhonikidze Street for registration. The Jews arrived there [as required] on August 21; they were taken by military trucks to the former city boundary, to the Grove of the 1st of May Grove (today the Chistakovskaya Grove). There most of the Jews had to take off their clothes and then were shot. Some of them were forced to enter German gas vans. The gas vans drove around.... When the vans returned to the site of the mass graves, those who had been inside the vans were dead. The Germans and their accomplices were engaged with the murder until the next day, August 22, 1942. After the liberation of Krasnodar about 500 dead bodies of Jews were found in the mass grave.

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