In the area of the old Russian Orthodox Cemetery on Bobruisk Street, 315 people – Jews, communists and opponents of the occupation – were murdered.

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On February 1, 1942, in the early hours of the morning, the German forces and local policemen surrounded the Cherven ghetto. The Jews were ordered to stand outside their houses and wait. At the same time, other Jews living outside the ghetto walls, such as in the local hospital, were gathered together. At around midday, two pits dug by local non-Jewish residents were completed, and the Jews were taken in groups of thirty to forty people to the pits, just 300-400 meters from the ghetto, on the road leading to Zametovka, in a region known as Glinitsa. They were ordered to undress to their undergarments and lie on the ground, where they were shot dead. Witnesses put the number of victims at between 1,500-1,750 people. The murder operation was carried out by the Einsatzkommando 8 unit of Einsatzgruppe B, with the help of local policeman. In the autumn of 1941, all the remaining Jews in Cherven were concentrated in a ghetto along a single street in a suburb, along with Jews from the vicinity and refugees from more distant areas. The non-Jewish occupants of the ghetto area were transferred to Jewish-owned homes in the center of the town. A few Jews, including patients at the municipal hospital, remained outside the ghetto. Belarussian police periodically murdered Jewish ghetto inhabitants near the municipal cemetery.

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