Most of Novo Arkhangelsk's Jews were shot in a murder operation on February 15, 1942. The people were told to take their valuables with them on the pretext that they were going to be evacuated. Germans, Hungarians, and local policemen collected the Jews in a former synagogue building. From there the victims were taken to a collective farms stable located 200 meters above the surrounding territory of the nearby Stalin kolkhoz. At 2 a.m. groups of 10-15 Jews were taken out of the stable and shot. Their bodies were thrown down from the height. The operation lasted until 10 a.m. A total of 134 Jews were shot on that occasion. In March of the same year another 27 Jews were shot, apparently at the same murder site. Several months after this, some Jews who had survived in hiding were found and shot in the town by local policemen.

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