On May 9, 1942, a killing squad consisting of SS, Feldgendarmerie, and local police, under the command of the chief of the Lida Gestapo Leopold Windisch, arrived in Wasiliszki from Żołudek. Members of the SS and police surrounded the ghetto and on the next day, assembled the ghetto prisoners near the premises of the Jewish council. Here Windisch carried out a selection; he separated 180 men having "useful" professions and healthy enough to work and sent all the rest to their deaths. The majority of Wasiliszki's Jews were taken under guard, in groups of 60, to the Jewish cemetery at the southern edge of the village and were shot in the pits that had been dug beforehand. The shootings continued until the evening of May 11. According to various estimates between 1,800 and 2,159 people were killed.

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