This occurred during the persecution and extermination of Jews under the Nazi occupation of Belarus during World War II.

Jewish specialists (68 people) were left in the ghetto, while the remaining 100-150 adult men were taken two kilometers from the town to the Pogoreltsy tract and the Mikhnovshchina forest.

[2][3] The Extraordinary State Commission for Ascertaining and Investigating the Crimes Committed by the German–Fascist Invaders and Their Accomplices, discovered several mass graves in Gorodishche.

One was located in the Pogoreltsy tract forest, two kilometers southeast of the town along the Gorodishche-Baranovichi road on the left side, 200 meters from the highway.

In 1994, memorial signs were installed near the Orthodox cemetery in Gorodishche and in the Pogoreltsy tract to honor the victims of the genocide of Jews.