On January 28 or 29, 1942 the police collected all the ghetto population, including Jewish refugees from Vitebsk, Surazh, and Kolyshki village, in a pigsty. The total was approximately 1,400-1,700 women, children, and old people. The police closed the pigsty windows with boards and set it on fire. Those who managed to get out of the burning pigsty and tried to escape were shot by the police who surrounded the pigsty. About 20 Jews, mostly boys and young women, managed to escape by climbing out of the small windows and making their way to the Red Army troops who had already reached the outskirts of the town.

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Around September 9 (according to some sources in August), 1941 about 120 Jewish men age 18-35 were rounded up on the pretext of being sent to work and then were shot on the outskirts of town in the area of the brick factory. According to other sources the shooting took place 2 kilometers outside of town near a fat-boiling site. Some sources say [see video testimony] that the town was rife with rumors about what had happened to the men. The remaining Jewish population was not aware of the murder operation since the witnesses were afraid to share the information.

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About 50 young Jewish women were shot in a trench near the former dairy factory in the fall of 1941. The exact date is unknown.

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In December 1941 or, according to other sources, on January 5 and/or 21, 1942, 25 Jewish girls were taken from the ghetto on the pretext of being sent to work at the commandant's office and then shot in the Gestapo building.

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At the end of January – the beginning of February 1942 the Jews who had escaped from the burning ghetto were caught and collected in some houses. Later they were shot in a trench near the Velizhka River. According to different sources their number varied from 30 to 100.

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