Immediately after the occupation of Akhtyrka by German troops, the German administration set up a local police unit. Its men combed the town for Jews, arresting some thirty-two persons. The arrestees were forced to do hard labor, and were tortured and humiliated during their work. On February 6, 1942, the thirty-two Jews were shot dead by the local Ukrainian police unit at a trench near the Church of Michael the Archangel in the northern part of the town.

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