Murder story of Mankovka Jews in the Mankovka Area

On May 2, 1942, about 50 Jews of Mankovka, primarily women, children, and elderly people who were deemed unfit for work, were taken outside the town, ostensibly to be resettled in Ivanki village, about 10 kilometers northeast of Mankovka. According to testimonies of local residents gathered by the Lo Tishkakh foundation, the victims were brought to a pit about 1.5 kilometers from Mankovka, near the fork of the roads leading to Ivanki and Zholudkovo villages, forced to take off their clothes and, then, were shot to death (or buried alive, according to some testimonies). The perpetrators of this massacre were probably German rural policemen, assisted by local auxiliary policemen.