At the beginning of September 1942 the Germans shot to death 250 Jews in the village center before the eyes of the local non-Jews and buried the bodies outside the village.
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Report from April 05, 1943.
After their arrival in the village of Stepnoye, Stepnovsky County in the Ordzhonikidze Kray District, the German monsters started to systematically murder the Jewish population of the village of Stepnoye. [They] beat and shot the innocent women, children and old people before the eyes of the local residents and [they] buried them [the victims] and those only half dead in a pit that had been prepared. In this way 250 Jews were murdered in September 1942.