The Jews of Turzec were exterminated in two murder operations, both of which took place at the old Jewish cemetery, which lay at the southwestern edge of the town, along Karelichskaia [Korelicze] Street. In late October 1941, the Germans, assisted by the local police, carried out a "selection" of the Jews of Turzec. They assembled the Jews in the central square, picked out 50 (or 55, according to another source) people, and shot them at the cemetery. The grave had been dug beforehand by a Jewish work detail that was spared for the time being. On November 5 (or November 4, according to other sources), 1941, men of the 8th Company of the Wehrmacht's 727th Infantry Regiment, under the command of the military governor of Stołpce, Lieutenant Ludwig Göbel, arrived in Turzec from Stołpce. The Germans were accompanied by the local Belorussian police. They assembled the Jews of Turzec once again, picked 100-150 Jews capable of work, and escorted the rest, some 400-450 people, to the cemetery, where they were shot in ditches that had been dug in advance. The 100-150 able-bodied Jews were sent to perform forced labor at a sawmill in Świerżeń Nowy.

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