Murder Story of Lozovaya Jews at the Zayachya Ravine

In late October 1941, a small group of Jews (apparently numbering several dozen, although the Ukrainian historian Alexander Kruglov gives a figure of 300 Jewish victims) were taken by members of Einsatzgruppe C to the ravine known as Zayachya Balka, two kilometers west of Lozovaya, and shot dead. In late November of the same year, a detachment of Sonderkommando 4b of Einsatzgruppe C shot 740 inmates of the Lozovaya POW camp, most of whom appear to have been Jews, apparently at the same site. In December 1942, a group of some 300 people – apparently including the few remaining Jews and some non-Jews – were taken to Zayachya Balka, ostensibly for work, and shot there by Germans and local auxiliary policemen.