On August 14, 1942 the inmates of the Pohost Zagorodski ghetto were assembled on the ghetto square and kept there without food or water. Then they were ordered to get onto trucks; those who did not manage to find a place were forced to run after the trucks. Most of them were mothers holding children and, thus, were unable to run. They were shot on the spot. The remaining Jews were taken to a field three kilometers from the town, beyond the Wiaz farmstead. There they were forced to strip naked and form groups of four or five, and then they were shot with bullets from pistols. The shooting lasted all day long, ending only at sunset. Several women and about thirty children remained alive and managed to get out of the pit by the following morning. These children and one woman who had been wounded in the murder operation were shot at short range by Germans who returned to the murder site in the afternoon and some Belarusians. After the Germans left, the Belarusians remained to cover the pit over with earth. According to different sources, the number of the victims was between 850 and 890.

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