On December 5, 1941, a German squad from Glębokie, which was assisted by local policemen and some Russian-speaking volunteers in civilian clothing, herded all the Jews of Prozoroki into the school building. A little while later, the Nazis also brought Jews from Ziabki, Zahacje, and some other villages to this location. On the same day, the Germans ordered peasants to dig pits in a forest near the Marusino Farm, about a hundred meters northwest of the village, across the Polotsk-Glębokie road. On the next day, December 6, with the temperature reaching minus 20 degrees centigrade, the victims began to be escorted in batches into the Marusino Farmstead (Marusino Forest). The first batches consisted of men, both adults and adolescents. Later, the perpetrators took the women and children to the murder site. The victims were shot, and their bodies were thrown into the pit. According to eyewitness accounts, the killers threw babies into the pit alive. Some of the victims were merely wounded when they fell into the pit. These were finished off by the collaborators with shovels and pitchforks. By 2 PM, when the massacre was over, the Nazis and their accomplices had killed 380 Jews from Prozoroki and the vicinity.

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