In September 1942, a special German unit arrived in Mikhaylovskoye and began to search for Jewish evacuees in the village. They found 200 Jews who had been evacuated from the western USSR. These were taken to the machine tractor station and forced to strip to their underwear. The Jews were beaten with sticks and rifle butts. Afterward, several gas vans arrived, and the Jewish civilians were herded into them. They were taken to the local aerodrome. The Germans who opened the doors of the vehicles at the aerodrome saw only dead bodies. They were thrown into the pits and trenches that had been left over from the construction of the aerodrome. In November 1942, the Germans conducted another raid in the village, arresting ninety Jews, mostly women and children, and locking them up in the garage in the courtyard of the German headquarters in Mikhaylovskoye. The gas vans were then brought into the courtyard. The Jews were herded into them and killed en route to the cemetery. Their bodies were thrown into the same pits and trenches where their fellows had been buried back in September.

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When the Germans entered Mikhaylovskoye, they began to hunt for Jews both in the village itself and in the surrounding area. That month, they arrested thirteen Jews in Mikhaylovskoye. The Germans herded them into a pasture, beat them, shot them, and dumped their bodies at the local cemetery. The bodies lay unburied for ten days, and were ravaged by stray dogs. Afterward, local policemen threw the bodies into a pit. Later, in September 1942, the German military and the local police combed the area of the village for hidden Jews. They entered the Russkiy farmstead and arrested sixteen Jewish evacuees from Ukraine who were staying there. The Jews were taken to the village of Mikhaylovskoye and held at the German headquarters. Subsequently, they, too, were shot at the local cemetery.

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