On November 2, 1942, the Świsłocz Ghetto was cordoned off by German soldiers, the Feldgendarmerie, and the local auxiliary police. The policemen assembled the Jews in the market square, and the commandant of Świsłocz began a selection. The young and middle-aged men and women (including women with grown-up children) were pushed to one side, while the elderly (including Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Miszkinski) and infirm inmates, as well as women with little children, were pushed to the other. The first group, numbering 3,000 people, was deported to Treblinka and Auschwitz via the Wołkowysk transit camp. The second group, numbering 1,500 individuals (or 300, according to other estimates), was loaded onto peasants' carts, which had been commandeered for that purpose, and taken to the Wiszewnik Forest, about 2 km west of the town. There, the victims were forced to undress and shot with machine guns. The perpetrators tossed living children into the pits. Several men were kept alive to cover the pits with soil after the massacre. Despite being promised that they would be spared, they, too, were killed on the next day.

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