In August 1941 members of Sonderkommando 4a took the Jews of Kodnya on three trucks to the narrow-gauge railway station close to Kodnya. Some of the Jews were forced to dig two pits and afterwards were shot - the men in one pit and women and children - in the other. The Germans murdered a total of 186 Jews from Kodnya.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Kodnya
"I know that the German fascist occupiers shot Jews to death, 185 of them.
…. In August 1941 the Germans used three trucks in three trips to take them to the narrow-gauge railway station, near Kodnya."