In October 1941, the Germans gathered 100 Jews from the town in a ghetto (a building formerly occupied by Soviet border guards).

On September 29, around 100 Jews, mostly women, children, and elderly people, were taken on horse carts out of the ghetto under the pretext of future resettlement to Minsk.

For a month following the liquidation of the ghetto, 35 Jewish women were kept in one of the houses on Bazarnaya Street.

Th town is located near the large Zaslawskaye reservoir, often called the Minsk sea.

All historical attractions of Zaslawye are situated in the downtown not far from the Belarus Railway Station.

The most interesting of them are the Zamechek Castle, which is an archaeological site of the Zaslawye town of the 10 – 12th centuries; the Val Site, which includes town ramparts and the fortified Savior Transfiguration Church (primary Calvinist church which was built from 1577 onward and is still in fair preservation); the Phara St Mary Church of the 18th century; a small skansen of a traditional wooden tavern, a blacksmith workshop, storehouse and steam mill.