According to survivors’ accounts, in September 1941 the 162 Jews of Żyrowicze were escorted to the nearby village of Głowsiewicze, six kilometers southwest of Żyrowicze. In a forest near Głowsiewicze, they were ordered to undress, and then shot. According to German sources, Gerhard Erren, the Gebietskommissar of Słonim, and his driver, Metzner, personally took part in the massacre.

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