On October 28, 1941 (in October-November, according to Soviet reports or in mid-December, according to the inscription on the monument commemorating the Holocaust victims from Dashev) the Jews of Dashev were ordered to assemble on the town's central square, after being told that they were going to be taken for agricultural work. All those who showed up were taken toward Polevoye village, near Dashev, to an anti-tank trench. There the victims were ordered to strip naked and to enter the trench, where they were shot to death in groups of several dozen people. An unknown number of Jews from the town of Kitaygorod were murdered together with the Jews of Dashev. The total number of victims of the massacre, perpetrated by members of Einsatzkommando 5 of Einsatzgruppe C and local auxiliary policemen, was about 800.

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According to one survivor testimony, apparently in 1942 several Jews who were spared in the late fall 1941 massacre of Dashev Jews were taken toward the village of Kupchintsy, several kilometers from Dashev, and murdered in a ravine. Neither the exact number of the victims of this massacre nor the identity of its perpetrators is known.

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In late October 1941 an unknown number of Jews of Kitaygorod were sent to the county seat Dashev. There they were murdered on October 28 (or in October-November, according to some Soviet reports), together with local Jews, in anti-tank trenches in Polevoye village next to Dashev by members of Einsatzkommando 5 of Einsatzgruppe C and by auxiliary policemen. In early 1942 another group of Kitaygorod Jews was taken to Dashev and murdered, apparently also at Polevoye, by German rural and local auxiliary policemen. According to the testimony of one non-Jewish resident of Kitaygorod a total of 180 Jews of all ages and both sexes were taken to and killed in Dashev.

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