On November 7, 1941, the anniversary of the October Revolution, about 155 Jews who remained in the village were shot by the 555th detachment of the 10th Infantry Regiment of the 1st SS Mechanized Infantry Brigade with the assistance of Ukrainian police. The Jews were ordered to appear with their belongings at a meeting point near a kindergarten in Novgorod Severskiy for the ostensible purpose of resettlement. They were surrounded by Ukrainian policemen and taken to the other side of the Desna River. The river was frozen and the group crossed over on the ice. The Jews were taken to anti-tank trenches located close to the river near the village of Ostroushki, and shot there by Germans with the help of Ukrainian police. The rest of the local Jews, those who did not carry out the order to assemble, were rounded up from their homes on November 8-9, 1941 and shot at the same murder site by Germans with the help of Ukrainian policemen. Some Jews from Novgorod Severskiy County and at least 7 Jews from Gomel were shot at this mass murder site. A total of 174 Jews were shot on November 7-9, 1941. On German orders the bodies were buried in the trenches by Soviet prisoners of war.

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