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Murder Story of Logoysk Jews on the Gayna Road

Murder Site

Gayna Road

Belorussia (USSR)

On August 27, 1941, Germans concentrated the Jews of Logoysk in the town’s square and ordered them to collect a significant sum of money and values. A few days later, in the morning of August 30, 1941, local Belarussian policemen concentrated the entire Jewish population of the town into one large building, known as the Old School. Later, a group of Germans from Einsatzgruppe B and a unit of the SS “Reich” Division arrived. After registering the Jews on the pretext of moving them to the nearby village of Gayna, they sent three separate groups – women with children, the elderly and others – to the murder site...