On a Saturday in early September 1941 a killing squad of more than 100 men armed with sub-machine guns arrived in Kholopenichi. They assembled about 900 Jews, including refugees from different places in the vicinity, in a local clubhouse, on the pretext of moving them to another location. Whoever could not come on his own to the club was taken there in a cart. Afterwards, all of them were taken under guard to a ravine called Kamennyi Log, located one kilometer northeast of the village, and shot to death. On the same day and at the same place about 700 Jews from the town of Shamki were also murdered. After the massacre local men were forced to bury the bodies of the victims.

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