Policemen Ivan Luzanov, Vasily Kobylyanets, Nikolai Bondar, and his nephews Grisha and Misha Yanovskiy nailed the same stars to buildings, marking them as Jewish households.

[1][2][4] To prevent military-aged men from uprising against the Nazis, male Jews aged between 15 and 50 were often killed, despite the lack of economic reason, as they were the most able-bodied prisoners.

[7] For these reasons, on July 3, 1941, the Germans took Jewish men to "work" at labor camps, although in reality, they were killed behind the bridge over the Berezina river.

A group of at least 40 men were shot in late August and early September in a collective farm on a mountain, and they were buried in ditches dug the day prior.

According to eyewitnesses, on that day:"...those who lived on the edge of Svislach were simply driven with sticks, women, children, old people through the streets on foot to their place of execution.

There were severe frosts, and the prisoners died of hunger and cold against the backdrop of incessant robberies and harassment by Nazis and other citizens of Svislach.

Local residents stood around the site, and examined the prisoners and ordered the Jews to hand over their possessions, such as jewelry and clothes, to the policemen.

[4] In Svislach, Orthodox Priest Stefan Kuchinsky (1875-1955) was awarded the honorary title Righteous Among the Nations from the Yad Vashem Memorial Institute as a sign of gratitude for his actions during the Holocaust, where he saved Leonid and Boris Gershanovich from being killed.

[4][10] After the war, at the site of the mass execution, the Jews of Svislach, who returned from the evacuation by the Red Army, erected a small obelisk with a metal fence.