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Krupskaya Street in Krugloye

In May or June 1942 the ghetto of Krugloye was surrounded by Germans and local auxiliary policemen. All the Jews, including those brought to Krugloye from Teterin, Shepelevichi, and other localities in the vicinity of Krugloye, mostly women and children, were lined up, led to the park, a former estate, situated at the end of today's Krupskaya Street (a driving school practice area is located there now) near the bank of the Drut River, where anti-tank trenches had been dug. All those assembled there were ordered to undress fully or to their underwear and lay face-down in the trench; they were then shot in the back of the head. The total number of victims was about 200.

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Shupeni

On September 15 (according to other sources, either in the first days of the occupation or the beginning of October), 1941 all the able-bodied Jewish men of Krugloye were ordered to appear at the local commander's office. They were told that they were being sent to work. When the men assembled, they were taken to a pine forest near the village of Shupeni, 4 kilometers from Krugloye, and then shot in a pit of a former cellar of some abandoned hamlets in the area. According to different testimonies the victims' number varies was from 45 to more than 60.

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Flax Factory in Krugloye

Small groups of Jews as well as individual Jews were shot in a ravine near the local flax factory. The exact days of the shootings and the number of the victims are unknown.

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Krugloye Area

In the fall 1941, according to the German sources in the early October, the group of the Jewish women was taken on the pretext to be sent to work, first from the ghetto premises to a separate building on one of Krugloye streets, and then to a trench in the outskirts if the town. There the victims were shot to death. According to the German sources the group included 28 Jewish women and 3 Jewish men. Some later testimonies mention the bodies of 45 women, many of them shot in pairs, found at the murder site.

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