Fifteen to twenty days after the occupation of Novoaleksandrovskaya, the Germans registered the Jewish refugees who had arrived in the village, along with other Jews who had sought refuge in nearby villages. The occupiers forced the Jews and other people whose lives Nazi ideology considered useless to perform forced labor in the village. At 3 p.m. one day at the end of September 1942, the Germans arrested all the patients in the county hospital and took them to the murder site, where they shot them and then took their hospital underwear back to the hospital On the same day the German authorities told the Jews to prepare for resettlement to the Land of Israel. Early in the morning of the following day the Germans took 10-15 people to the Volodarsky collective farm, 2-3 kilometers from Novoaleksandrovskaya.
Two or three of the adults were forced to enter pits that had been prepared earlier and were shot to death from above. The children were poisoned or killed after they were thrown alive into a pit. By the end of the day the Germans had murdered 541 people, the vast majority of them Jewish. The two pits were full of the bodies of adults, elderly people, and children of all ages.

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