Probably in mid-September 1941, on German orders the local police assembled members of Szczuczyn's Jewish intelligentsia, including Rabbi Y. Rabinowicz and school teachers, and then the Germans shot several dozen of the Jewish men near the village of Topiliszki, north of the town.

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On May 9, 1942, the liquidation of the Szczuczyn ghetto began. On that day the Jewish police, on an order of the German authorities, assembled all the Jews of Szczuczyn in the synagogue square on the pretext of conducting a census. The local "Judenreferent" [expert on Jews] Leopold Windisch, accompanied by a unit of the security police (SiPo) and local auxiliary policemen, appeared at the site. The Germans selected 500 or 600 (the sources diverge) work-capable Jews, and the rest of the Jews were taken under guard by SiPo members and local policemen to the market square. There, after having to wait for the German Feldgendarmerie, who arrived with machine-guns, the victims were taken from the market square to the airfield on the northeastern edge of the town, where pits had been prepared. On May 9 and 10 2,060 Jews were shot by a group that, according to some sources, included Lithuanian and Latvian policemen.

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