Mykolaiv region, Voznesensky district, Bogdanivka. During World War II, an extermination camp was established in the village in October 1941. The Romanian occupation forces brought Jews from Bessarabia, Bukovina, Odessa, Eastern Podillia and Romania itself to the camp. At the end of 1941, there were about 54 thousand people in the camp. In December 1941, after the outbreak of a typhus epidemic, it was decided to destroy all the prisoners. The Romanians began the mass murder on December 21, 1941. The operation to destroy the Jews, timed to coincide with Stalin's birthday, was called "Stalin's gift". The prisoners were forced to dig holes in the frozen ground with their bare hands and put the bodies of their comrades who had just been shot or burned alive in barns in them.