On March 3 (at the end of March, according to some testimonies), 1942 all the Jews of Novo Moskovsk were ordered to hand over their belongings, ostensibly for transfer, on the pretext that they were going to be resettled in Palestine. After being robbed of their possessions, the ghetto inmates were taken by boat across the Samara River. Some of the Jews were taken on foot to the murder site. There the victims were ordered to undress and were shot at a sand quarry near the bridge. The children were buried alive. The murder was apparently carried out by members of Sonderkommando Plath, headed by the chief of the Kremenchug Security Police office Karl Julius Plath, and by local auxiliary policemen. The number of victims was estimated as being between 200 and 400, according to various Soviet reports and testimonies.

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According to Soviet reports, in September-December 1941 about 1,000 civilians were murdered in the garden of the local pedagogical institute. It is unknown how many of the victims were Jews. The perpetrators were apparently members of Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C.

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