The rest of the Bykhov’s Jews – women, elderly men and children – were shot by the SS in November 1941. The murders were carried out near the village of Voronino, on the eastern side of the Dnieper, six kilometers east of Bykhov. The killing site was close to a wood-processing plant. According to many accounts, the Jews from Bykhov who had survived the murder operation in September 1941 were taken to a “castle” – a two-storey, yellow building on a hilltop in the town – where they spent approximately one week without food or water. Those who survived were then brought by truck to the village of Voronino on the eastern side of the Dnieper and shot in an anti-tank ditch. Witnesses relate that dead bodies were scattered along the entire length of the path from Bykhov to the killing site – Jews who had attempted to flee this road of death. Before the murders, the victims were ordered to undress. The Nazis did not shoot the children under the age of ten; instead they broke their spinal cord and tossed them to the ditch. Many were buried alive. The number of the Jews killed in November 1941 is believed to be about 2,000 people; this includes five Jews brought to the site from Novyi Bykhov and probably some other individual Jews from the vicinity. The Soviet Extraordinary Commission put the number of victims at 4,679; this number most likely includes non-Jews executed at the same spot by the Nazis. In November-December 1943, the Nazis exhumed the bodies of the Jews killed near the village of Voronino and burned them.

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In September 1941, the SS shot 252 Jews – according to some accounts, only Jewish men (corresponding with the general Nazi policy in the area at that time), according to others, women and children as well. The murder operation was carried out half way between the former hospital and the town of Bykhov, southeast of the town, at a place called Gankov Rov (Gankov Ditch). This operation lasted several days.

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