During the second murder operation, some 180-200 Jews from Kobryń who were deemed incapable of work (because of old age or physical or mental illness) were assembled, together with some of their family members, in the local school building. From there, they were transported in trucks to a site 5 kilometers from Kobryń, near the village of Imienin, where they were shot by a Gestapo unit. While Soviet documents date this operation to August 1941, some other testimonies indicate that the shooting took place after the creation of the ghetto, emphasizing the fact that the Judenrat had supplied the Germans with lists of those unable to work.

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The first murder operation against the Jews of Kobryń seems to have been carried out in July 1941. Young Jewish men were arrested in the streets of the town and assembled in the square on the pretext of being sent to work. In fact, they were taken to the area of the village of Patryki and shot there. Estimates of the number of victims range from 80 to 200. Some testimonies indicate that the rest of the Jews of Kobryń remained ignorant of the massacre for a certain period of time.

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Early in the morning of October 15, 1942, the area of Ghetto A was cordoned off by the Germans. The ghetto inmates were forced out of their homes and taken to the village of Borysowo, south of Kobryń, where they were shot. According to some documents, the victims were stripped naked before being taken to the murder site. Soviet reports put the number of victims at 4,250. Some sources claim that 72 artisans, who had been kept alive until then, were shot at the same location in December 1943. In April 1944, the Germans exhumed the bodies of the victims from the mass grave and burned them.

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