Starozhevitsa River
On September 18, 1941, the Germans assembled all the Jews of Krupki in the market square at the town’s center. After checking that all the Jews were present, the Teilkommando 2 (sub unite 2) of Einsatzkommando 8b, commanded by Werner Schoenemann and the twelfth unit of the 354th infantry regiment, forced those assembled to run towards the peat-digging site. This site, situated at the bank of the Starozhevitsa River (according to other evidence, Starozhnitsa River), about 1.5-3 kilometers from Krupki, near the village of Lebedevo and the Minsk-Moscow road. There, between 1,000 and 2,000 Jews (according to German and Soviet sources, respectively) were shot. In 1944, Germans ordered to Soviet POWs to burn the remains of Jews at the Starozhevitsa murder site and then killed all of them at the same place.
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Krupki Cemetery
At the beginning of the German occupation, 100 Jewish women and children were shot near the town’s cemetery, 500 meters from Krupki.
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