On August 25, 1942, the Germans ordered all the Jews in the town to appear for registration and resettlement two days later. The Jews were told to bring along some of their possessions and their valuables and to show up at the German headquarters. Under the guard of German military and police forces, 700 Jews were loaded onto 26 trucks and 18 carts and taken to a sand quarry outside the town. According to Soviet sources the pit there was eight to ten meters deep. The Jews were forced to strip naked and then were shot to death with machine-guns. The children were killed by being struck with rifle butts and metal rods.
The rifle butts were also used to beat adults victims so hard that any golden teeth they had would be knocked out and, then, handed over to the German officers. The gold rings of married couples were also taken by the officers. After the victims were shot, the perpetrators blew up the quarry so that the traces of this crime scene were covered with earth and clay. On their way back, the Germans took the victims' clothes and valuables, including the gold rings, and drove back to their headquarters.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK reports from Georgiyevsk
... On August 27, 1942 the German city administration collected 700 Jewish civilians of Jewish origin at the command headquarters; they were told that they were going to be relocateded. They were encircled and surrounded by German army and police forces and taken on 26 trucks outside the city to the sand quarry; all of the victims were forced to strip naked and then were shot death with machine-guns. The northern wall of the quarry, which was used for the shooting, was blown up and filled with earth by the Germans so that their victims were covered over with a thick layer of sandy clay....
... In August 1942 the fascist villains shot [some] Soviet civilians to death in an anti-tank trench northeast of the village of Nezlobnaya, one kilometer from the town of Neftekachka, where 351 bodies were found.”
“About 9 kilometers from Georgiyevsk, at the former tractor field camp of a brigade of the corrective labor colony were found 132 bodies of Soviet civilians, who were shot to death by the fascists in December 1942: 62 [separate] bodies were found in the trench, while 70 bodies were pressed together. The fascists shot each victim separately; they [the executioners] had to stand on the mound of bodies. The majority of the corpses had five to ten bullet wounds, broken sculls, broken or dismembered arms and legs – [all] traces of the violence committed by the fascist cannibals and sadists. Next to the pit a passport [i.e., identity paper] was found that had belonged to the civilians V. A. Vanshtein, that had been issued to him by the NKVD of the Kazatinskaya Region.”