On November 1, 1941, the Germans, implementing Hitler's program for the extermination of Jews, organized a ghetto in Damachava, covering an area of 1 km² and confining about 2,000 people.

The ghetto was surrounded by a double wall of barbed wire, cordoned off by guards, and entry and exit without special permission were prohibited.

[7][8] On September 18, 1942, the Germans ordered the Jews from the ghetto to dig pits on a sandy hill half a kilometer east of the village, near the so-called "Shilov Swamp."

The ghetto was completely destroyed on September 20, 1942, when the cavalry squadron of the gendarmerie stationed in Damachava, the police, the SD Sonderkommando, and collaborators killed 2,700 or 2,900 Jews.

Policeman Anthony Sawoniuk from Damachava was found guilty of Nazi war crimes by a British court in 1999 and died in prison.

In 1987, a new monument "Protest" was erected near the highway from Brest to Tomashovka, before the turn to Damachava – bronze statues of children with hands raised in prayer.