[6] The Nazis implemented their program of Jewish extermination by confining Jews to a ghetto, which the prisoners were forced to fence off themselves.

[8] Jews who initially hid during the ghetto's liquidation were later captured, shot, and buried in a common grave near the tannery.

Alexander Markovich Kesler was drafted into the Red Army after the annexation of the territory by the USSR, survived the war, and later lived in Voronezh.

[8] In 2010, a monument was erected to commemorate the victims of the Jewish genocide in Vysokaye, located on Frunze Street near the ruins of an ancient synagogue.

[9][10] Jozef Khariton, an artist and witness to the destruction of the Vysokaye ghetto, created several paintings depicting these events in the post-war years.