On the night of May 7-8, the German Security Police, the Gendarmerie, and the local collaborationist police surrounded the ghetto. All groups working outside the ghetto were ordered to return. During the two-day-long encirclement, many Jews managed to flee from the ghetto; about 150 of them were shot dead in the attempt; it is believed that some 300 may have made good their escape. On May 10, the Germans seized 100 young Jews, ordering them to dig pits in the Jewish cemetery. According to some testimonies, these Jews staged a mass escape following a signal given by Meir Stoler; about 30 of them managed to evade the murderers. In the afternoon, the Germans and policemen escorted the Jews of Raduń westward along the Grodno road, to the cemetery that lay approximately 2 km west of Raduń. Those who lagged behind on the way to the murder site where killed on the spot. The rest were ordered to undress and lie down in the pits. At that very moment, the Germans picked out "specialist workers", and even permitted them to take their families out of the pits. Those not classified as "specialists" were shot. An estimated 1,500 Jews were killed at the Raduń Jewish cemetery on May 10, 1942.

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In the first days of 1942, Rudolf Werner, a German assistant to the Lida Gebietskommissar, arrived in Raduń. With the aid of the police, he conducted a house-to-house search for Jews from Lida and other localities who were living in the ghetto without official residence permits. Werner and his assistants uncovered about 40 Jewish refugees, who were then marched out of the town to the northeast, along the road to the village of Bastuny. They were then killed, and buried in the forest.

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