In early September 1942, the German administration ordered the Jews living in the town to get ready for evacuation. To this end, they had to prepare food for 10 days and pack up to 20 kg of baggage. They were to assemble at the German headquarters on September 7, 1942. The Germans cordoned off the crowd of Jews and arrested them. The occupiers confiscated the possessions and the foodstuffs brought by the arrestees. The 200 Jews were then held for two days in a German prison without food or water. On September 9, 1942, German soldiers took the Jews out of town and shot them at a pit that had been dug some 4-5 kilometers from Vorontsovo-Aleksandrovskoye.
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The ChGK report from Vorontsovo Aleksandrovskoye
I, the citizen O. T. Kamilova, who lived in the village of Vorontsovo-Alexandrovskoye during the German occupation, am aware of the bestial shooting of the Jewish inhabitants, who numbered about 200. Sarah Goldfish was one of them.…
I witnessed the atrocity committed on September 7, 1942, on the orders of the military commander (name unknown) and the military headman T. E. Shaparevik.
These people [the Jews] were brought to the Gestapo headquarters with their valuables and food.
Some 200 Jewish citizens were rounded up and held there for two days without food. Afterward, the Germans confiscated their possessions and clothes and loaded them onto vehicles. The victims were then taken to a spot 4-5 kilometers from the village, where a pit had been dug in advance. There, they were undressed and shot dead.