[2] In the fall of 1941, the Germans, implementing Hitler's program of Jewish extermination, organized a ghetto in the town, which functionally served as a labor camp.

[2] The ghetto, located opposite the railway station and enclosed by a barbed-wire fence, consistently housed around 500 people.

Those who died from hunger, beatings, disease, or were shot by guards, were replaced by new able-bodied prisoners from nearby ghettos.

[5] A sign with "behavior rules" hung on the camp gates, with the punishment for any violation being execution—even for hiding a piece of bread.

They were dug at the sites of today's Sadovaya, Montazhnikov, Dzerzhinsky, and Frunze streets; Korotkiy, Sadovy, and Proletarsky lanes; at the 7th kilometer of the Gantsevichi-Khatynichi road; and in the Krasunya forest area (Malkovich district).

In the mid-1960s, the remains of Jews—the victims of the genocide—from all known execution pits were reburied in a grave on Gagarin Street, and a monument was erected at that site.