On September 30, 1941 eleven members of two Jewish families from Varvarovka who were taken to the Rozvalina farmstead near Varvarovka, together with several Jewish refugee families from Bessarabia, were taken to a pit near the farmstead and, after being brutally treated, were shot to death by Romanian policemen.

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In September 1941 Germans, apparently members of Einsatzgruppe D, murdered 42 Jews of Varvarovka, together with 75 Jews from nearby villages and from the city of Nikolayev, at a pit 4 kilometers southeast of the village.

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Many of the Jewish forced laborers who were brought to the Varvarovka labor camp from various German-controlled south Ukrainian areas and from Romanian-controlled Transnistria died from the arduous work and the inhuman conditions. In late 1943 or early 1944 a number of the camp's inmates were hanged or shot inside or just outside the camp. They were either accused of sabotaging the construction of a bridge over the Bug River or were caught attempting to escape.

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