In November 1941, members of the gendarmerie arrested Jews, both local and those who had sought refuge in the town, and concentrated them in one building. For three weeks the Jews were taken for hard or demeaning labor: they were forced to pull carts, clean toilets, polish the Germans’ shoes, etc. In late fall, the exact date is unknown, the Jews were taken from the police station or, according to other sources, from another building where they had been kept, and were loaded into tarpaulin-covered trucks. They were driven to the mulberry tree plantation of the Vostochny Collective Farm, 800 meters from Mikhaylovka. The total number of the Jews – women, children, and old people - was 47. Members of Einsatzkommando 12 of Einsatzgruppe D, that had arrived at Mikhaylovka in November 1941, shot the Jews next to a trench. Some young infants were thrown into the trench alive.

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