Different sources indicate that between 150 and 230 young Jewish men from Berezino were shot during the murder operation of August - September 1941 (according to other sources, at the beginning of 1942). Fearful of Jewish resistance, the Germans took all the young men some six kilometers out of the town and there, between the villages of Novoselki and Pogost, 50 meters from the Minsk-Mogilev Highway, killed them. They then announced to the local population that they had liquidated a partisan unit.

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On December 25-28, 1941 (according to other sources, on January 31 or February 1, 1942), the Berezino ghetto was liquidated. Two days before the beginning of the mass murder operation over 1,000 Jews were forced into a large agricultural stucture. From there, with the assistance of local policemen, the Germans took the Jews in small groups to a mass grave that had been prepared in advance, 150 meters west of the ghetto on Internationalnaya Street. There they killed them in cold blood.

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