Implementing Hitler's plan for the "Final Solution" to the Jewish question, the Germans immediately began killing Jews.

Among the Jews killed in Zhabinka was Malka Shliomovna Vysotskaya (married name Duksina), the sister of Vladimir Vysotsky's paternal grandfather.

[4] Local resident, Polish woman Floria Budishevskaya, hid two Jews in her house for almost two years — 12-year-old Roma Levin and her friend Sonia Fefer.

She was awarded the honorary title "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.

When the Grinbergs ran out of valuables, the neighbor began adding arsenic to the food she brought to get rid of the now "useless" and dangerous burden.