The Holocaust in Byerazino District

This atrocity was part of the broader "Final Solution to the Jewish Question", an integral component of the Holocaust in Belarus and the wider genocide of European Jewry.

The Nazis included Byerazino District in the territory administratively assigned to the rear zone of Army Group Center.

In those settlements where Jews were not killed immediately, they were kept in ghettos until complete extermination, used for heavy and dirty forced labor, from which many prisoners died due to unbearable workloads, constant hunger, and lack of medical care.

[3][4] The occupation authorities, under the threat of death, forbade Jews to remove yellow patches or six-pointed stars (identification marks on outer clothing), leave the ghetto without special permission, change their place of residence and apartment within the ghetto, walk on sidewalks, use public transport, be in parks and public places, attend schools.

[10] Nine residents of the Berezinsky District were awarded the honorary title of "Righteous Among the Nations" by the Israeli memorial institute Yad Vashem "in deepest gratitude for the help given to the Jewish people during World War II": Monuments to the victims of the Holocaust in the district have been erected in Berezino,[14][15] Bogushevichi,[16] and Borovino.