On November 27, 1941 an order was issued by the commander of Sonderkommando 10b, Alois Persterer, that by December 1 the Ashkenazi Jews had to appear with the keys to their apartments at the collection point of Sennaya Square on the pretext that they were going to be resettled in Ukraine. They were allowed to take with them some possessions and food for two days. The other things had to be left intact in their apartments. The death penalty was announced for those who did not obey this order. Those who had shown up (mainly women, children, and the elderly) were taken to the S.D. prison (the former city prison building), put into cells with broken window panes, and kept there in the freezing cold. According to one testimony, several Jews attempted to be released from prison by obtaining papers from the Orthodox Church testifying that they had converted to Eastern Orthodoxy. However, they remained in prison since the Germans did not recognize their conversions from Judaism. Some of the Jews were sent home for one night in order to bring valuables with them when they returned to prison. About 120 people from mixed marriages (mainly children) were, temporarily, exempted by the Germans and after a day or two were sent home. The belongings and provision of the Jews were left in the prison courtyard. Then, guarded by SD men and Russian auxiliary policemen, the assembled Jews were taken, partly by truck and partly on foot, to the outskirts of the city, to an anti-tank trench near the road to Staryi Krym (the Feodosiya-Simferopol road). They had to strip to their underwear at the building of the Mechanik Factory, were forced by being whipped to run in small groups to the anti-tank trench, and then shot to death by a unit from Sonderkommando 10b. The shooting lasted for several days. The personal belongings of the victims, mainly their outer clothes and money, were piled up and then taken back to S.D. headquarters in Feodosiya. According to a German report, about 800 (according to the ChGK report, approximately 2,000) Jews) were murdered during this operation. On December 10, 1941 the Krymchaks were ordered by the city administration of Feodosiya to appear on December 12 at Sennaya Square in order to be relocated to another part of the city. About 300 Krymchaks appeared at the collection point; others went into hiding. Only 9 Krymchak families (42 persons) of artisans with their families were temporarily spared by the Germans in order to fill German labor needs. The rest, guarded by the policemen (from an Order Police battalion) and the Russian auxiliary militia, were taken by truck to the former supplementary poultry farm of the city hospital, that was located several hundred meters from the Mechanik Factory and shot to death by members of Sonderkommando 10b. Military policemen (Feldgandarmerie) from Field Commandant's Office 810, as well as Russian auxiliary policemen, took an active part in this shooting. According to a report of the field commandant's office, during January and February 1942, 36 Jews who had gone into hiding and, apparently, also Jews from mixed marriages (mainly children) were shot to death at the anti-tank site. On March 5, 19, and 23, 1942, during roundups of Jews in hiding, another 66 Jews were caught and shot to death by members of Sonderkommando 10b and the Wehrmacht at the same murder site. According to German sources, in April 1942 some Jews (including women and children) were loaded into gas vans and asphyxiated during the ride from the SD headquarters in Feodosiya to this site. Their bodies were disposed of there.

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