On November 9, 1941, some 3000 Jewish inmates of the Romny Ghetto were convoyed by the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police to the barracks building on Mayakovskiy Street in the center of town. On November 10, 1941, the Jews were marched to the area southeast of the village of Peska. They were led to a ravine near the Sula River. They were divided into groups of 10-15, with the men separated from the women and children. The Ukrainian police guarded the murder site. The adults were shot dead by the Germans with machine guns, while the children were either thrown into the ravine alive, or killed by the men of the mobile killing squads, who used their bare hands for this purpose.

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