In the first days of July 1941, as part of the pogrom perpetrated by the German military administration, some 200 Jews – men, women, elderly people, and children – were rounded up and taken at gunpoint to the area of the town synagogue. According to some testimonies, the Germans herded about 50 people into the synagogue, locked down the doors, and burned the building down. According to other testimonies, these 50 people were shot inside the synagogue, and then, several days later, the Germans doused the building with gasoline and burned it together with the bodies. After massacring the victims in the synagogue, the Germans shot the remaining Jews outside the building with machine guns and rifles. The German military authorities did not permit the bodies of the Jewish victims to be buried for several days. Only when the bodies began to stink were the town's remaining Jews ordered to bury their fellows near the synagogue building.

More information: Yad Vashem