In January 1942, about 35-40 thousand Jews who remained in Odessa were evicted to a ghetto organized on January 10, 1942 in the poor Slobidka district. The cloth factory (Krasnoslobodskaya Street) was used as a temporary storage facility, where the Nazis prepared a large group of people for further transportation by rail. The evictees were kept there in incredibly crowded conditions, there was not enough housing for everyone, people were left in the open air in winter, which led to mass mortality from hypothermia. From January 12 to February 20, 1942, 19,582 Jews who remained were deported to the Berezivskyi district of the Odessa region. They were transported in unheated trains, many died on the way.