After the mass murder operation on October 30, 1942, 500 skilled workers and refugees from Western Europe remained in the Nieśwież ghetto. Some of the young people organized an underground resistance. Although the local Judenrat opposed resistance to the Germans, the young people continued to pursue this course. Nine underground groups were formed with 5 people in each one. The resisters obtained weapons, ammunition, and even a machine gun. On July 21, 1942 the German security police of Baranowicze, along with auxiliary Belarusian police and regular uniformed urban police, surrounded the ghetto and began to liquidate it. In reaction the resisters began firing their machine gun from the roof of a synagogue. Approximately 30 people succeeded in escaping and joining the partisans. About 700 Jews were killed in the ghetto.

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On October 23, 1941 the German occupation forces assembled all the Jews at the market square and made them line up in two columns. One column was taken to pits which had been prepared in the park near the local castle. The second column was taken out of town toward the village of Snów. About 1,600 Jews were shot to death in the park. The murder operation was carried out by Company No.8 of Infantry Division 707 and by members of the gendarmerie.

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On October 29, 1941 a second group was taken to a location that is today a driving-lesson site. The old people and children were taken by truck. Pits had previously been dug, on German orders, by local Poles. Approximately 1,500 Jews were shot to death there.

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