On December 12, 1941 a special unit of Germans numbering sixty men collected between 670 and 1,200 (according to different sources), inmates of the Belynichi ghetto including local Jews and Jews from Shepelevichi, Golovchin, and Neroplya who had been brought there on the pretext of resettling them in the town of Esmony, located 12 kilometers away. However, the Jews were taken to the Mkhi Ravine, a kilometer and a half southwest of the village of Zarudskaya Sloboda. There local residents, at the order of the Germans, had already prepared two pits. The Jews were forced to strip to their underwear and to lie face down in the pits. As soon as a row of people was complete, they were shot and the next row of Jews were piled on top of them. After the murder any worthwhile possessions of the victims were taken by the Germans to Mogilev, while the rest was divided up among the local population.

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On December 12, 1941 a special unit of Germans numbering sixty men collected between 670 and 1,200 (according to different sources), inmates of the Belynichi ghetto, including Jews from Belynichi itself and from Shepelevichi, Golovchin, and Neroplya who had been brought there on the pretext of resettling them in the town of Esmony, located 12 kilometers away. However, the Jews were taken to the Mkhi Ravine, a kilometer and a half southwest of the village of Zarudskaya Sloboda. There local residents, at the order of the Germans, had already prepared two pits. The Jews were forced to strip to their underwear and to lie face down in the pits. As soon as a row of people was complete, they were shot and the next row of Jews were piled on top of them. After the murder the victims' worthwhile possessions were taken by the Germans to Mogilev, while the rest was divided up among the local population.

More information: Yad Vashem