An additional murder operation took place at the beginning of February 1943. 400 Jews were put, along with some non-Jews, into the city prison. The conditions in the prison were terrible: the sanitary conditions were wretched and the prisoners were not allowed any food. On February 3 the non-Jewish prisoners were released, bit the Jews had to stay, among them young families with infants. On February 4 the Germans loaded the Jews onto trucks and took them to the village of Mikhailovka, where they were forced into a barn. Then the Germans shot these Jews to death.

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