In October 1942 the Germans began to liquidate the Smorgonie ghetto and to transfer its Jews to other places. They sent 1,600 Jews to the ghetto of Oszmiana. After the arrival of the Smorgonie Jews in Oszmiana, the Germans carried out a selection, after which they took about 500 "useless" Jews to the vicinity of the Talminowo village, west of Oszmiana, and shot them there. Some survivors identify the site with the Żielonka farm (khutor), in fact, at the edge of Tolminovo, while other survivors identify it with the Uglejewo farm (does not exist anymore), one kilometer south of Talminowo.

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On July 3, 1941 (or in mid-July of that year, according to another source), the Germans assembled the young Jewish men of Oszmiana and led them through a gauntlet of non-Jewish townspeople, asking the latter to point out which of the Jews had collaborated with the Soviet authorities. In this way, they managed to pick out a fairly large number of male Jews. On the morning of July 4, they took these Jews in trucks to the Rojsty Forest, 1 km southeast of the village of Jagiełłowszczyzna (or 1.5-2 kilometers north of the town of Oszmiana), and shot them there. The Soviet ChGK (Extraordinary State Commission) estimated the number of victims killed on that day at 353.

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On July 25, 1941, the Jewish council of Oszmiana was ordered to provide a list of all male Jews aged between 17 and 65. On the next day, July 26, a Teilkommando of Einsatzkommando 9 rounded up almost all the male Jews according to this list and shot them in the Legowszczyzna Forest, near the hamlet of Bortele (2 kilometers north of the town of Oszmiana, or 1.5 km east of the village of Jagiełłowszczyzna). According to the Einsatzgruppen report, 527 people were killed. The Soviet ChGK (Extraordinary State Commission) estimated the number of victims killed on that day at 573.

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In October 1942, the German SiPo (Security Police) ordered the Jewish police of the Vilna Ghetto to select 1,500 "surplus" Jews for liquidation. Jacob (Jokubas) Gens, the head of the Vilna Ghetto, and Dessler, the chief of the Jewish police, began to haggle with the Vilna SD, aiming to reduce the number of victims. As a result of the haggling, on October 23, 1942, the SiPo, with the assistance of the Jewish police from Vilna, rounded up 406 elderly people and shot them at the former Uglejewo grange. The former folwark (grange) of Uglejewo no longer exists. It was situated 1 kilometer south of the village of Talminowo.

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