Three concentration camps were situated near the villages of Bogdanovka [uk], Domanovka and Akmechetka [uk] on the Southern Bug river, in Golta district, Transnistria with Bogdanovka holding 54,000 people by the end of 1941.

In December 1941, a few cases of typhus, which is a disease spread by lice and fleas, broke out in the camp.

Thousands of disabled and ill inmates were forced into two locked stables, which were doused with kerosene and set ablaze, burning alive all those inside.

Other inmates were led in groups to a ravine in a nearby forest and shot in their necks.

The remaining Jews dug pits with their bare hands in the bitter cold, and packed them with frozen corpses.