On September 19, 1941 about 40 Jewish men and teenage boys were gathered at the office of local county police in Petrovskogo and then taken by truck toward Korsun. The victims were taken to a sand quarry on the outskirts of Petrovskogo and shot dead, apparently by members of Einsatzgruppe C and local auxiliary policemen.
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From the Judicial proceedings against former auxiliary policeman Nikolai Zhuk. The Testimony of Semyon Gergel, born 1927, Cherkassy, June 29, 1978:
...To returning somewhat back in my testimony I wish to make it clear that at the time of the already mentioned robberies committed by N.A. Zhuk, my father B.S. Gergel, Orlovetskiy, Knyazhanskiy, Dinershteyn, Berger, and Masterovoy were no longer alive. They were shot by Gestapo men with the participation of Gorodishche county police on September 19, 1941, along with the 37 Jewish men and teenage boys, who were residents of the town of Gorodishche. My father was caught by a Gestapo man right on the street when he went home for lunch from the bakery where he worked at the time. I personally saw how the above-mentioned arrested people, including my father, were taken on two covered German military trucks from the courtyard of the county police, under the guard of Gestapo men and policemen, toward Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy.
Subsequently, we learned from inhabitants of the town of Gorodishche that the 37 people taken away were shot at the sand quarry on the outskirts of the town of Gorodishche....