After occupying the village of Novo-Shcherbinovskaya, the Germans began to search for Jewish residents. They forced them to do hard and dirty jobs – e.g., cleaning the streets and sewers in the village. Then, on September 8, 1942, the German administration ordered all the Jews to assemble at the police station. They were taken from there, in trucks and other vehicles, to a ravine 300 meters north of the village. Some of them had to march there on foot. Upon reaching the killing site, the Jews were forced to strip to their underwear, and were then shot dead by German soldiers. The Germans murdered approximately forty men, 105 women, and fifty-five children on that day. The Jews were divided into small groups, ordered to approach the ravine, and forced to lie down in it, whereupon they were shot with machine guns. The Jews' clothes and possessions were looted by the German occupiers.

More information: Yad Vashem