On December 30, 1941 a detachment of Sonderkommando 10b commanded by Siegfried Schuchart, which was transferred to Dzhankoy from Kerch, together with members of the local Tartar militia, took 443 inmates of the labor camp in Dzhankoy toward the anti-tank trench at the corner of Oktyabrskaya and Kirov Streets on the northeastern outskirts of Dzhankoy. There the victims were taken in small groups to the trench, ordered to undress, made to lie face-down in the trench and, then, they were shot. Those Jews who managed to escape this massacre but were caught later, as well as Jews brought to Dzhankoy from the surrounding area and, also, from other parts of the Crimean peninsula, were murdered in the same place and in the same way during 1942. In January or February 1942 this location was the site of the murder of 450 Krymachks, members of the original Jewish community in Crimea, who had been living in Dzhankoy and the area.

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