According to an eyewitness, in the winter of 1941/1942 Jews, as well as non-Jews accused of anti-German activity, were taken from Dzhankoy to a place north of Dzhankoy (now this is on the northern outskirts of the town) in the steppe near the Mirnovka River on a the hill (which was leveled in the 1980s) to the site where a gas station is now located. There the victims were ordered to undress, lined up at pits, and shot by members of the Tartar militia. According to the same eyewitness, [some] victims were also taken there in gas vans and their bodies then thrown into the pits.

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