Soviet documents date the shooting actions of the Jews of the Stary Kermenchik area to February–March 1942. According to these sources, the Jewish victims were residents of the Novozlatopol County of the Zaporozhye District, and were not included in the local victim lists; hence, their names could not be established. The shootings took place in pits that had been dug at the airfield near the Kalinin collective farm, one kilometer southeast of Stary Kermenchik. The number of victims is estimated at 100-110, and they include elderly people, women, and children. According to some testimonies, the victims were taken to the killing site in trucks, and were then either shot or thrown into the pits alive. Some sources mention additional shootings in Stary Kermenchik, which took place in an orchard and in the village itself, near the building of the financial department. However, there are no clear indications that the victims of these killings were Jews.

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