On October 12, 1942, two months after the German military had occupied the village of Grigoropolisskaya, the local policemen began to search for Jewish evacuees in the village. Using lists drawn up in advance, they went through the village house by house. Once they had arrested 150 civilians, mostly Jews and Communists, they imprisoned them in School No. 22. There, the arrestees were beaten and tortured until dawn on October 13. At that point, all the local policemen, the police chief, and the village headman arrived, and the arrestees were counted and loaded onto a huge vehicle. All of them were taken to the Pravda collective farm. A pit had been dug there, and the arrestees had to climb into it. Meanwhile, the local policemen snatched the infants and toddlers from their mothers' arms and threw them into the pit. A German soldier with a machine gun stood at the edge of the pit. He aimed his gun at the people in the pit and shot them dead.

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