In August (in September, according to the inscription on the monument to the victims, or in October, according to the German-appointed county chief of Stavishche), 1941 several dozen Jewish men of Stavishche were collected and told that they were going to work in the forest. Instead, they were taken to the Revukha tract, a large forest area, two and a half kilometers from the town, and shot to death at a pit dug ahead of time west of Roskoshnaya village.
A short time after the murder of the Jewish men, in the summer or fall of 1941, the rest of the Jews of Stavishche, predominantly women and children and also, apparently, Jews from Stavishche County, altogether a total of about 150 people, were collected and taken to the same place in the Revukha Forest, where they were shot to death in small groups. The perpetrators of both these massacres were members of Einsatzgruppe C, assisted by local auxiliary police.

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