The Einsatzgruppen did not succeed in capturing all Jewish local residients and Jewish refugees in the city. Some managed to hide or otherwise survive the murder operations, but the Germans continued to search for these temporary survivors. The Germans used their headquarters to organize the murder of other Jews from the Stavropol Kray District. Gas vans that departed from Voroshilovsk were used to eliminate the last Jews in the city and the rural areas: the Germans killed 30 Jews with the gas van on November 22, 1942 and 60 Jews between the end of December 1942 and January 1943. Their bodies were thrown into a pit at the old cemetery.

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At 7 o’clock on August 12, 1942, about 3,500 Jew who had escaped from the western territories of the Soviet Union were collected at Yarmachnaya Square. Five days before that the German occupiers had ordered that only the Jews who were not inhabitants of Voroshilovsk [i.e., who were refugees] had to gather for registration. Those Jews were told to prepare for evacuation to a better [i.e., safer] place than Voroshilovsk. They were ordered to get ready to take all their valuables and their belongings, to a maximum of 30 kilograms. Jews who had valuables at home had to write their names and their address on notes that they gave to members of the Jewish council who were also at the meeting point. In the meantime, the mobile death squads of the SD surrounded the group of victims. The women and children begun to weep and to lament. The Germans loaded the Jews onto trucks and took them to the airfield (on the outskirts of the city), where a pit had been prepared that was about 100 meters long and 2 meters wide. The victims were forced to undress and to leave their clothes and belongings next to the pit. Everyone, old and young, men and women, had to line up next to the pit, where they were shot to death with pistols and machine-guns. After one line was shot, a board was placed over them and the next line was then ready to be shot. During the shooting several members of the SD took photographs of naked Jewish women before they shot them to death and threw their corpses into the pit. The SD used German shepherds to attack and murder the children.

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During the night between August 14 and August 15, 1942 the German perpetrators murdered approximately 500 Jews. The Germans ordered the Jews who were inhabitants of Voroshilovsk to appear to be registered and receive armbands. They were given until late in the evening of August 14. Those who showed up were then put into the Gestapo prison, where they were kept without food and water. Between late in the evening and early the next morning the prisoners were taken by truck to the psychiatric clinic at 441 Lenin Street. There some of them were shot and some asphyxiated by gas vans. Their bodies were thrown into a half-filled pit that already contained some non-Jewish victims. Some days earlier the Germans had murdered the staff members and patients of the clinic.

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