According to some testimonies, in August 1941 about two dozen male Jews of Pyatigory were collected at the former school building, ostensibly for a meeting, and from there were taken to the town's outskirts, to a field (that is near the present Gagarin Street in Pyatigory) and were shot to death. The perpetrators of this massacre were most likely members of Einsatzgruppe C. A different version of the murder operation was presented by the inscription placed at the murder site in the 2000s. According to this information, the massacre took place on November 15, 1942, on the same day that other Jews of Pyatigory were murdered at the Piatigory machine-tractor station.

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On November 15 (or November 14, according to the inscriptions on the monuments to the Holocaust victims), 1942 Jews from Pyatigory and Jews brought to Pyatigory from villages all over Tetiyev County were collected at the prison of the Pyatigory auxiliary police station and locked up there overnight. The next day these Jews, of all ages and both sexes, were taken to the area of the Pyatigory machine-tractor station on the northern outskirts of the town and held in a shed there. After being forced to strip to their underwear, the Jews were taken in small groups to a nearby pit, forced to kneel at its edge, and then shot in the back of the head. The perpetrators of this massacre, which claimed the lives of between 100 (according to perpetrators' testimonies) and 300 (according to Soviet reports) people, were German rural policemen from the Tetiyev County police station and auxiliary policemen brought to Pyatigory from all over Tetiyev County.

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In mid-November 1942 several dozen Jews living in Tetiyev were arrested by local auxiliary policemen and imprisoned in the local police station. After being held for a short time, they were transferred to the town of Pyatigory, about 20 kilometers east of Tetiyev and imprisoned in the police station there, together with Jews from all over Tetiyev County. On November 15 or 16, 1942 all these Jews were taken to the area of the Pyatigory machine-tractor station, on the eastern outskirts of the town. There they were forced into a barn and, after being made to strip to their underwear, were taken in small groups to a nearby pit, forced to kneel at the edge, and then shot in the back of the head. The perpetrators of this massacre were German rural policemen and local auxiliary policemen brought to Pyatigory from all over Tetiyev County.

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