The last Jews of Esmony were shot in June or July 1942 in a grove between Esmony and Pupsa (Maysk). The Jews were taken to a pit, ordered to undress to their underwear, lined up at the edge of the pit in groups of ten, and shot by machine-gun fire - first the children, then the old people and women. After the massacre local policemen selected the better clothes left by the Jews, ripped gold teeth from their mouths, and tore gold rings from the victims' fingers. The murderers were members of Einsatzkommando 8B, who came from Belynichi. When the Jews of Esmony were taken to their death, Germans who did not participate in the shooting looted the Jews' houses.

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At the end of July 1941 30 men, 26 of them Jews from Esmony, were taken to work in the forest. The men had to remain in the forest both day and night. When one Jewish man, Meer Levin, died, the workers protested. The men demanded to be sent home. On the evening of July 29, 1941 Germans shot them all, on the old forest road leading to the village of Aleshkovichi, and burned their bodies.

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One day at the end of July or in August 1941, early in the morning, German gendarmes from Belynichi arrived in Esmony. Together with local policemen they assembled several Jewish families in the kolkhoz yard, a total of 106 people. Those assembled were held in the kolkhoz yard for some time and then taken to a potato field on the outskirts of the village, near the Belynichi-Shepelevichi road, and shot there. According to several testimonies, this massacre was followed by the looting of Jewish property by the non-Jewish inhabitants of Esmony.

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