About 280 Jewish inmates of the Voronovitsa labor camp deemed unfit to work -- mostly women, children, and elderly people-- were collected in late January 1943 in the Catholic church in Voronovitsa, forced to strip, and then taken to the machine-tractor station in Stepanovka village, about 2 kilometers from Voronovitsa, and shot dead. The perpetrators were apparently members of the SS unit responsible for security in the Gaysin sector of the Highway IV construction site. 270 Jews from Voronovitsa County were shot at the same site in May 1943.

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On the night of November 11-12, 1941 members of Einsatzkommando 5 of Einsatzgruppe C, together with local auxiliary policemen, collected 630 residents of Voronovitsa of all ages and both sexes, the majority of them Jews, in one place and took them on November 12 to the village of Stepanovka, about 2 kilometers from Voronovitsa. Upon arriving close to the sugar factory in Stepanovka, the victims were forced to strip and to lie down in pits that before the war had served to store forage for animals, and then were shot in the back of the head. The small children were mostly thrown into the pit alive. The same place also served as the murder site for 380 Jews from Voronovitsa who were murdered in early December 1941 in the same manner, also by members of Einsatzkommando 5, and for 270 Jews, apparently inmates of the Voronovitsa labor camp who were deemed incapable of work, who were murdered in late May 1942, apparently by the SS unit responsible for the Gaysin sector of the construction site of Highway IV.

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