In January or, according to some sources, in March, 1942 the local authorities discovered a Jewish orphanage located on Korolenko Street. 23-25 Jewish children, including several whose parents had been killed in a murder operation in January 1942, and several elderly Jewish women lived there. Probably within the period from January to February-March or, according to other sources, on March 7–8, 1942 local doctors gave the victims injections, after which the children and the women died.

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On the morning of January 21 or 26, or in February, 1942 between 110 and 126 Jews were taken from their homes and collected at the former government OSOVIAKHIM building on Oktyabrskaya Street, on the pretext that they were going to be sent to work. The local police then took them to the murder site located in the Pesok ravine on the left bank of the Vorskla River, one kilometer from Kobelyaki, on the right side of the Kobelyaki–Dnepropetrovsk road. The victims were forced to strip and were then shot in groups of, ten paces from an anti-tank trench, into which their dead bodies were thrown.

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