On September 3, 1942, the German authorities announced that the Jewish refugees who had arrived in the village of Novo Grigoryevskoye from the western regions of the Soviet Union had to get ready for evacuation back to their hometowns, where they would be given work. The Jews, who were permitted to bring along up to 32 kg of luggage, and all their valuables, had to present themselves at the German headquarters on September 5. As soon as the 50 Jewish men, women, and children had been assembled, they were surrounded by Germans and auxiliary policemen, who proceeded to confiscate their property. The Jews were ordered to get into a special truck that had been prepared for them, and they were driven north, in the direction of the village of Niny, to an area with empty silo pits. At first, the Jews had to strip to their underwear, and they were then abused by the auxiliary policemen. In the end, the SS men and the local policemen shot them dead.

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Upon the orders of the German headquarters, Wehrmacht soldiers raided the “Gorky” collective farm in the town and arrested eleven Jews living there. The arrestees were taken to a barnyard and held there for 3 days without any food or water. Afterward, the Germans ordered the Jews to remove their clothes and lie down in a pit that had been dug outside the barnyard. The Germans then fired down on the people with their machine guns, killing them. When the massacre was over, the pit was covered with soil and mud. According to the non-Jewish eyewitnesses, the victims were of various ages and of both sexes. Their screams could be heard all over the town.

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In early September 1942, the German administration ordered the Jews living in the town to get ready for evacuation. To this end, they had to prepare food for 10 days and pack up to 20 kg of baggage. They were to assemble at the German headquarters on September 7, 1942. The Germans cordoned off the crowd of Jews and arrested them. The occupiers confiscated the possessions and the foodstuffs brought by the arrestees. The 200 Jews were then held for two days in a German prison without food or water. On September 9, 1942, German soldiers took the Jews out of town and shot them at a pit that had been dug some 4-5 kilometers from Vorontsovo-Aleksandrovskoye.

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