On September 10, 1941, early in the morning, members of the German police regiment South and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen surrounded the town of Komsomolskoye and drove all the local Jews, irrespective of age or sex, out of their homes and took them to a barn on the territory of the mill and to the oil-processing factory on the outskirts of town. Jews were told they were going to be sent to work in another area. All the victims were locked in the collection places for several days, robbed of their possessions, and severely abused. After between 10 and 20 men who were skilled workers were separated, the rest of the Jews were loaded onto trucks, taken to the forest near the village of Zhezhelev, several kilometers north of Komsomolskoye, ordered to strip, and then shot in the back of the head in small groups at three pits that had been prepared in advance. The total number of Jews murdered in this massacre exceeded 800.

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