[1] Before the war, the Jewish population of Ivacevichi had significantly increased due to the influx of refugees from areas of Poland occupied by the Germans in September 1939, and by the beginning of the occupation, it numbered about 300 people.

[2] Jews were immediately ordered to sew large fabric marks in the form of yellow circles onto their clothing (on the back and chest).

[2][3] The Germans confiscated all the savings, household items, and tools from the Jews—equipment, sewing machines, horses, wagons, bicycles, and other property.

[2] Prisoners were beaten daily and used for forced labor—construction, road laying, and loading and unloading work at the railway station.

[2] According to eyewitness accounts, local peasants came to the ghetto and urged: "Give us everything, you will be killed anyway..."[3] The blacksmiths, Aron Zuchowicki (Sara Rosjanski's brother) and his brother in-law Chaim Utschtein worked repairing German trucks and for local farmers in exchange for supplemental food.

Sara and Jacob Rosjanski and Aron Zuchowicki survived and fought as Jewish Partisans in the Ponomarenko brigade until they were liberated by the Red Army on July 12, 1944.