In July 1941, a very short time after the start of the German occupation of Volodarka, about a dozen local Jews were arrested and held in the building of the former secondary school. From there they were taken to the town park overlooking the Ros River, forced to dig their own graves, and then were shot to death, apparently by members of a unit belonging to Einsatzgruppe C. Later, in the second half of 1941 or in 1942, about 200 Jews from nearby villages were taken to Volodarka and murdered at the same site. It has not been possible to identity the perpetrators of this mass murder.

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