Ostroushki Related Communities
The rest of the local Jews, those who did not carry out the order to assemble, were rounded up from their homes on November 8-9, 1941 and shot at the same murder site by Germans with the help of Ukrainian policemen. Some Jews from Novgorod Severskiy County and at least 7 Jews from Gomel were shot at this mass murder site. A total of 174 Jews were shot on November 7-9, 1941. On German orders the bodies were buried in the trenches by Soviet prisoners of war.