At least 1,000 Jews of Belaya Tserkov were taken in the second half of August 1941 to the camp for Soviet prisoners of war on Krasnoarmeyskaya Street (in early 1942 this camp was designated POW base camp No.334 or Stalag 334). There, in a specially fenced off area known as the Seventh Site the Jews were shot to death at trenches by members of a detachment of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C. The murder of the Jews at this place continued through the rest of 1941 and 1942, when often groups of several hundred Jews were taken from the prison run by the security police. It is impossible to determine the total number of Jews who were shot to death at the Seventh Site.

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Apparently soon after the start of the occupation about 100 Jews taken to the military barracks known as the Third Site in the city center near the market place, supposedly for work, were shot nearby by members of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C. In mid-August 1941 several dozen Jewish men of Belaya Tserkov who were accused of being Soviet agents were shot to death at pits near the Third Site, also by the members of Sonderkommando 4a and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen.

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On August 19, 1941 the Jews of Belaya Tserkov were ordered by the military commandant of the city to come to his office, supposedly to be registered. The assembled Jews were taken by a detachment of secret field police to the northwestern outskirts of the city. There they were initially put into a small building, then the adults were taken in small groups to pits near the shooting range in the vicinity of the camp for Soviet POWs on Aleksandriyskii Avenue (today the 50th Anniversary of Victory Avenue). The victims were forced to kneel at the edge of the pit and then were shot in the back of the head by members of a detacment of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C. Some of the children whose parents had been shot earlier that day were taken by truck to the same pits and shot to death there. According to Soviet data, a total of about 5,000 Jews from Belaya Tserkov were shot at that place.

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About 100 Jewish children whose parents were shot to death on August 19, 1941 were initially spared and locked up without food or water in a school building on the western outskirts of Belaya Tserkov. The fate of these children became a point of contention between the German military authorities and the security police. After some discussion Commander-in-Chief of the German 6th Army Field Marshal Walther von Reichenau personally decided that these children should be shot. The carrying out of this massacre was assigned to Ukrainian auxiliary policemen. On August 22, 1941 the children were taken by tractor to the woods just outside Belaya Tserkov, lined up at the edge of a pit that had been dug there, and shot dead.

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