Shortly after German troops occupied Vowchyn, more than 100 Jews were deported to the ghetto in Vysokoye, where they were murdered alongside the local Jewish population on November 2, 1942.

[1] Approximately two months after the occupation began, the Nazis established a ghetto in Vowchyn, confining the local Jewish population as part of their broader program of extermination.

[1] There is a known case of rescue involving a local policeman named Marian Kozhenevsky, who saved Esther Mindler, a Jewish girl around 9-10 years old.

Additionally, the old Jewish cemetery in Dichka pasture holds the remains of approximately 700 Jews, including those from nearby villages and towns who were brought to Vowchyn and executed.

[4] In 1965, a concrete obelisk was erected at the mass grave, inscribed with the words: "Here in 1942, 395 Jews—residents of the villages of Vowchyn and Chernavchitsy—were shot.