According to one testimony, in the winter of 1941-1942 the Romanian authorities arrested Jews, mainly aged ones, either in their homes or at the local market, and took them to the building of the former boarding school, which served as the headquarters of the Romanian Gendarmerie during the occupation (according to another testimony, the Jews were held under arrest in the former inn for travelers). Once a group of twenty-thirty victims had been assembled, they would be taken out and led under guard along Krasnaia Bessarabia Street (presumably a side street, to make the convoy less conspicuous), toward the Dniester River. Upon reaching their destination, the Jews were stopped near an ice hole (sized 3X4 meters) cut by the Romanians. Several Romanian gendarmes stood near the ice hole, and they were beating the victims with large truncheons, aiming at their heads, while several other gendarmes dragged the victims into the hole. The rest of the gendarmes were guarding the murder site, to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the area. During the execution, there were attempts at resistance; thus, a local Jewish woman named Rata fought back and managed to push a Romanian gendarme into the icy water; she was shot by the gendarmes. Another group of about ten prisoners tried to escape while the Romanians were drowning the victims, but they were shot in the attempt. These killings went on for several hours.

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Shortly after the beginning of the occupation, most probably on July 23, 1941, the Romanian soldiers rounded up some 1,000 Jews throughout the town and assembled them in the marketplace. The detainees were held there for several days (a week, according to one testimony), under a heavy guard of Romanian soldiers. During this period, the Jews were beaten, and their homes were looted. Afterward, they were apparently released. According to a testimony, at about the same time the Romanian soldiers locked up another group of Jews (some of whom had probably been found hiding) in a two-story building that was known locally as “zayezd” – a former inn for travelers in the center of town, near the former Council House (Dom Sovetov in Russian). After being rounded up, the Jews were taken by the Romanians out of the "zayezd" in two groups – each of them consisting of about 25-30 people, mostly adult men and women – to an orchard near the marketplace, where a long trench had been dug in advance. Upon reaching the shooting site, the victims were forced to stand in a line. The execution was carried out by several squads of Romanian soldiers, who were armed with rifles. The Romanians selected a group of Jewish men and ordered them to throw the victims’ bodies into the trench. After the shooting, the victims' bodies were buried at the nearby fire station. Allegedly, some local Jews (who had been hiding during the massacre) approached the killing site that night and tried to exhume the grave, but were chased off by the Romanians, who opened fire on them.

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