In late July 1941, the Germans arrested 36 Jewish men – including Rabbi Shabtai Fein, the doctor Reuven Klaczko, and a pharmacist – and locked them up in the building of the former gmina (town administration). After abusing and beating them for several days (with the most brutal treatment being reserved for Rabbi Fein), the Nazis escorted their victims along Niomanskaia Street, to the site of the former Polish shooting range at the southeastern edge of Bielica, not far from the Eastern Orthodox church. There, pits had been dug by a group of Jews brought from the town. The victims were shot at this site. According to some eyewitness accounts, the Nazis picked 5-7 of the condemned men, forced them to run toward the pits, and then shot them with machine guns. Some of the victims were merely wounded, rather than dead – but they, too, were covered with earth by the local non-Jewish residents, along with the rest.

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