Only about 250 survived the war,[1] some of whom were helped by Hugo Armann, head of a unit that arranged travel for soldiers and security police.

[5] In 1904, members of the Jewish community established a local chapter of the Bund political movement to improve workplace safety.

[5] Jews established factories, large shops, windmills, and wholesale trading firms in the growing city.

During the interwar period, Jews experienced a renewal of cultural and economic opportunities and held positions in the local government.

[5] In 1939, the city became part of the Soviet Union, which nationalized the economy and resulted in changes to the Jew's way of life by abolishing youth, political, cultural, and communal groups and events.

[4] The Germans occupied Baranavichy on June 27, 1941,[5][6][a] a group that included soldiers, civil administration authorities, and Schutzstaffel (SS) personnel.

[2] The Einsatzgruppen (mobile death squads) killed Jews in the ghetto in three "actions",[7] as ordered by Rudolph Werner, territorial commissioner (Reichskommissar of Generalbezirk Weissruthenien).

[2] The first action occurred on March 3 and 4, 1942,[7] when 3,400 young, old people, and otherwise unable to perform forced labor were murdered in front of trenches dug for a mass grave.

[2] Another 3,000[2] or 5,000 people[5][7] were murdered over ten days, beginning September 22, 1942,[2] by the SiPo and Nazi Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst (SD)).

[4][5] Edward Chacza, born in 1918, was a Polish Roman Catholic miner who lived and had a family in Baranavichy by World War II.

[8] When the Germans occupied the Baranavichy area, Chacza helped Jews escape from the cloistered ghetto and into the forests.

He aided Jews by providing temporary shelter, medical care, and food, as well as connecting escapees with Jewish partisan groups in the woods.

[7] Brana, a Slonimer Hasidic Jew, and Monik, whose father was a follower of the Revisionist Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky, were married after the war and immigrated to the United States.

[7] Renia Berzak, born in 1925 in Baranavichy, grew up in a wealthy family and interacted with Jewish and Gentile people.

[11] Ya'akov G., born in 1924 in Kletsk, Poland (now Belarus), witnessed the horrors of The Holocaust and hid in the forests and a bunker before coming to the Baranavichy ghetto.

After escaping capture by the Germans, Ya'akov returned to his home after the end of the war and found that all of his family had been killed.

[4] When the city was bombed, the family sought shelter in a small town, and they returned to find that their home was destroyed.

Litwak, given a certificate that she was a productive worker, and her sister Osnat, washed clothing for the Signal Corps, whose soldiers would give the girls some of their food.

At her parents' urging, Litwak escaped on December 10, 1942, and found Edward Chacza, a Polish gentile who arranged for her to be taken to her uncle, who lived in a hut with his family in the swamps near Wielkie Luki.

After living there for a while, they escaped an attack by German soldiers and were led to a man named Neckolsky, who was the leader of a Russian partisan camp.

[4] A Jewish man kept a diary of his experiences of The Holocaust, including when the Germans occupied Baranavichy in 1941 and then committed mass killings of Jews.

[4] Besides a memorial stone at Tsaryuka Street, an obelisk was erected by Jews in Israel and around the world in 1992 at the former Jewish cemetery.