Early in October 1941 a detachment of Sonderkommando 10b of Einsatzgruppe D arrived in Lenindorf. All the Jews were collected in the building of the rural council (or in a school building, according to one testimony). From there they were taken to silage pits 1 kilometer east of Lenindorf, forced to lie face-down in the pit, and then shot in the back of the head. According to one testimony, the Jews were forced to dig their own grave before being shot. Jews from surrounding kolkhozes were shot together with the Lenindorf Jews. The mass murder claimed the lives of about 1,000 Jews (750, according to the inscription on the monument erected after the war), about 450 of whom were from Lenindorf. The massacre was perpetrated by local auxiliaries, along with members of Sonderkommando 10b.

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