On March 5, 1942 three members of the Shmandura family, the Jewish husband Abram, and the two children (born to his Ukrainian wife) Leonti - age 15 and Rakhil - age 12, were arrested at the Bug grain-growing state farm by local auxiliary policemen and sent to the county seat Novaya Odessa. After being held overnight at the security police prison, the victims were taken from Novaya Odessa and shot, probably at the same airfield site where the Jews of the town of Novaya Odessa and the County were murdered in the second half of 1941. Abram's wife Anna witnessed the murder of her husband and their two children.

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In late September 1941 a German unit entered the Novaya Odessa ghetto. Together with local auxiliaries, the Germans carried out a selection of ghetto inmates. The Jews who had professions that the Germans could use were separated, together with their families, from the other inmates. The latter, numbering approximately 30, were ordered to take their belongings and valuables, on the pretext that they were being relocated in order to work. Instead they were taken a short distance from the town and shot in ditches, in the vicinity of a place that had been an airfield before the war. Before being shot the victims were forced to strip naked and to hand over their possessions. In early October 1941 the remaining ghetto inmates were divided into two groups, taken to the same place, and shot in the same manner. The perpetrators of these massacres which claimed the lives of a total of 125 victims were members of the German military police (Feldgendarmerie)and, probably, also of a unit of Sonderkommando 10b of Einsatzgruppe D, and local collaborators. The murder of those Jews from Novaya Odessa and the County who managed to survive the large-scale massacres of September and October 1941 but were apprehended later by Germans and local auxiliaries apparently continued at the same location well into 1942.

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According to one testimony, the first group of Novaya Odessa Jews to be murdered in late September 1941 was led to the area of a brick factory on the town's outskirts and murdered in clay pits there.

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