On August 25, 1942, the Germans ordered all the Jews in the town to appear for registration and resettlement two days later. The Jews were told to bring along some of their possessions and their valuables and to show up at the German headquarters. Under the guard of German military and police forces, 700 Jews were loaded onto 26 trucks and 18 carts and taken to a sand quarry outside the town. According to Soviet sources the pit there was eight to ten meters deep. The Jews were forced to strip naked and then were shot to death with machine-guns. The children were killed by being struck with rifle butts and metal rods. The rifle butts were also used to beat adults victims so hard that any golden teeth they had would be knocked out and, then, handed over to the German officers. The gold rings of married couples were also taken by the officers. After the victims were shot, the perpetrators blew up the quarry so that the traces of this crime scene were covered with earth and clay. On their way back, the Germans took the victims' clothes and valuables, including the gold rings, and drove back to their headquarters.

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