The Holocaust in Baranavichy District

All power in the district was held by the Nazi military occupation administration, which operated through field and local commandant's offices established by the Wehrmacht.

The Nazis and their collaborators began the systematic extermination of Jews, with repeated organized mass killings, euphemistically referred to as "actions."

In settlements where Jews were not killed immediately, they were confined to ghettos, forced into hard labor under dire conditions, and ultimately exterminated.

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

[4][1][2] Many Jews in Baranavichy District were killed during the Nazi punitive operation "Pripyat Marshes" (Pripiatsee) conducted from July 19 to August 31, 1941.

[5][6] Thousands of Jews from the Baranavichy District were killed near the village of Koldichevo, where the Germans established a death camp in March 1942.

Upon arrival at the railway station, they were ordered to leave their belongings and were transported by truck to the "Gai tract", two kilometers from the city, where they were shot.

The inscription on the monument in Belarusian reads: "In this place in the summer of 1942, peaceful residents of the village of Novaya Mysh and other nearby settlements were shot by fascist invaders.