Early in April 1942 Germans and local auxiliary policemen assembled the Jews of Yelizovo of all ages and both sexes and took them across the Berezina River. There, 600 meters from the railway bridge, all the Jews were shot at a 15 meter-deep ravine. According to various sources, the total number of victims was about 160.

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On January 21, 1942 the Germans in Yelizovo were attacked by a partisan force but the attack failed. On the same evening German reinforcements arrived and, together with local auxiliary policemen, they rounded up a number of Jewish and non-Jewish men. The Jews were separated from the non-Jews and taken across the Berezina River. There they were divided into several groups and, after being forced to undress, were shot in two graves in the forest at a place called Yelni.

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