Chervyen massacre

On 25 June, about 2,000 prisoners were marched on foot by troops from the 42nd NKVD brigade to Chervyen.

[3] A Soviet report claimed that 209 prisoners were shot due to confusion and a German air attack.

[3] On 27 June, Belarusian NKVD received a telegram from Mikhail Ivanovich Nikolsky [ru], head of the NKVD prison department in Moscow, ordering to leave 400 prisoners in Chervyen and execute the rest.

Then, by a forest about 1.5–2 kilometres (0.93–1.24 mi) from Chervyen, NKVD organized the mass execution.

[5] The first commemoration of the massacre occurred in July 1990 when Lithuanian activists erected a wayside shrine and Belarusians a memorial cross.