Novo-Alexandrovskaya
On August 3, 1942 German troops captured the passengers of a train of evacuees from Izobilnoye. The Germans ordered the evacuees to leave the train and then took almost everything the refugees had with them. The victims had to proceed by foot and remained for five days without food or water. The Germans also tortured people and cut off the beards of religious or old men. When the evacuees were taken to Novo-Aleksandrovskaya village, the 200 people, who included a number of Jews (according to some sources, 18 of them) were shot to death.
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Private Yard in Izobilnoye
On August 15, 1942 the Germans arrested 23 people of Jewish origin and took them to a pit in the yard of a civilian resident of Izobilnoye. The victims had to stand in line and they were shot to death in such a way that their bodies felt into the pit. Two hours later nine Jewish people were shot to death in the same way at the same place.
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Izobilnoye Well
On August 18 a group of 25 German soldiers arrived in the village. They entered the homes of Jewish civilians, searching for Jews and their belongings. They [the Germans] took everything of monetary value. They arrested a total of 14 people and took them to a well at the edge of the village and also arrested a family of six. The oldest son, age 16 ,succeeded in escaping. The other victims were shot on the spot and thrown into the well. One woman in the group, the mother of six children, was bayonetted to death by the Germans and then thrown into the well.
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Sukhoy Farmstead
In August 1942 three German soldiers arrived at the farm of Sukhoy, 15 kilometers south of Izobilnoye. They arrested three Jews in their apartments. They stole their belongings, took those people to the end of the farm, and shot them to death in an anti-tank trench.
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Izobilnoye Area
At the end of August 1942 the Germans hunted for Jews in the village. They arrested 12 people, mainly women and children. They took them to the outskirts of the village and shot them near Izobilnoye. In October 1942 the Germans arrested a Jewish peasant and shot him to death near Izobilnoye.
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