On November 29, 1941 all the Jews were taken from the Kovalevka Street ghetto to the school building on Market Square, where they were inprisoned in the basement. The Jews were beaten several times during the night. The following day Semenovka’s Jews were marched out of the city to a birch grove, where they were shot dead in a ravine by the 10th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Motorized SS-Brigade. It is estimated that 55 Jews were murdered during this operation.

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