Some of the Jews from Orel, including young children, were shot in the Medvedevsky Forest 6 kilometers from Orel, 50 meters from the road to Mtsensk or to Moscow, according to other sources. The bodies were later buried by residents of Malaya Bulgakovka village. The number of Jewish victims shot and buried in the Medvedevsky Forest is estimated to have been more than 40. The shootings took place in the late autumn of 1941, although some sources date them to late autumn 1942.

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On February 24, 1942 the head of the Orel Jewish community informed the German authorities that there were 175 Jews officially registered in the town (153 adults and 22 children). On August 15, 1942 up to 70 people from Orel, evidently Jews, were taken by truck to the Kurgan Forest tract, 5 kilometers south of Orel, 500 meters from the Malaya Gat farmstead. They were taken to trenches in small groups and shot with sub-machineguns. The children were buried alive in the trenches. The shootings continued in November and December of the same year.

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At least 14 Jews were registered by the German authorities from among the patients at Orel's Kishkinka mental hospital. There were also several Jewish patients who were being cared for in the hospital under non-Jewish names or simply were not included into the official list. The hospital staff was ordered to prepare the Jews for relocation to other areas in the German-occupied territories. In July and on September 10 and November 27, 1942 the hospital patients, including the 14 Jewish ones, were taken from the Kishkinka mental hospital on the pretext of being sent to Belorussia. The registered Jewish patients were separated by the police and Gestapo men from the others and treated especially brutally. Local residents testified that several dozens of the mentally handicapped people, most likely including the Jews among them, were shot near Nekrasovka village.

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