The first murder operation against Jews was conducted, according to different sources, on September 22, 26, or 30, 1941. Following a German order the local Jews assembled with their possessions in Pushkarsky Lane or Kladbishchenskaya Street. From there about 2,000 Jews, mostly women, children, and old people, were taken to the suburbs of Poltava and shot with submachine-guns.

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On November 15, 1941 the German authorities ordered Poltava's Jewish population to assemble on November 23, 1941 on the pretext that they were going to be relocated. They were allowed to bring with them a three-day food supply and their valuables. On November 23 the Jews were taken along Pushkarevskaya Street to the southwestern outskirts of the city near the former Soviet firing range. A number of non-Jews joined their Jewish spouses and children, going with them to the murder site, where they were killed together. The murder operation was conducted by Sonderkommando 4b. The Jews were shot in groups of 20-30 and their bodies were thrown into an anti-tank trench. Young children were thrown into the trench alive. According to some sources 1,538 Jews (according to other sources – a total of 3,000 people) were shot that day.

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