On August 18, 1941 German and local auxiliary policemen took 40 Jews from Ershtmaysk who were working in the fields to the building of the village administration. From there they were taken 400 meters north of the village to a well and shot dead there. On August 23, 1941 Jewish families from the villages of the Ershtmaysk rural council were assembled at the same village office building, supposedly to be registered. After being robbed of their possessions, the Jews were lined up and taken to the same well where the 40 Ershtmaysk Jews had been murdered several days earlier. There the victims were divided into the small groups, which were ordered to lay face down in turn, and then shot. The perpetrators of this massacre were Germans and local auxiliary policemen. The total number of Jews murdered at the Ershtmaysk well on August 18 and 23, 1941 was about 800.

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