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Kaszyce

A forest in the vicinity of Kaszyce, a village located 4-5 kilometers from Postawy, became a killing site, and the Germans took Jews there to be killed, both singly and in small groups, on several occasions. Thus, on July 3, 1941, several Jews from Postawy were shot at the site as part of a group of Soviet activists. In early 1942, the German Gendarmerie shot 55 people (30 women and 25 men) there. The victims, who appear to have been Jewish, were brought to the forest from various places.

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Myadelka River Area

On July 7, 1941, eight people, including several Jews, were arrested as Soviet activists and shot. Four months later, their bodies were found in a pit near the Miadziołka River.

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Postawy Park

In July 1941, several Jewish men from Postawy were arrested and shot, apparently in a local park. Several weeks later, they were reburied at the Jewish cemetery by their relatives.

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Postawy Ghetto

During the liquidation of the Postawy Ghetto on November 21-24, 1942, the police set fire to the houses whose residents had refused to come out, and many of the Jews of Postawy perished in the flames. While most of the victims were forced to run toward the primary murder site near the railway tracks, some of them were shot on the spot, in the area of the ghetto.

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Railroad Area in Postawy

The liquidation of the Postawy Ghetto (and of the nearby Duniłowicze Ghetto) took place on November 21-24, 1942, as part of the Nazi anti-partisan Operation Nuremberg. Remarkably, the Soviet partisan movement was not active in this area in 1942. Thus, the "operation" seems more like a pretext for a massacre of Jews. Its main perpetrator was the anti-partisan Kampfgruppe von Gottberg, which was reinforced by local Wehrmacht servicemen, as well as by Ukrainian, Baltic, and Belorussian police units. The police raided the ghetto houses, herded the inmates into adjacent streets, and escorted some of the Jews northward along Bazylianska Street, to pits that had been dug beyond the railway. Other Jews were led along Brasławska Street, northwest of the town center, to pits that had been dug near the railway crossing. The international Postawy community maintains that 4,000 Jews were murdered in November 1942. This figure may include the Jews from nearby Duniłowicze who were killed on the same day.

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