Skirmantovo

Skirmantovo is a village located 18 kilometers northwest of Dzerzhinsk, the county center. The earliest reference to the village dates to 1802. No information on any Jews residing there has been found. Skirmantovo was occupied by German troops around July 28, 1941. Several partisan units, both non-Jewish and Jewish ones, operated in the forests surrounding the village during the occupation period. Units of the latter type also accepted Jewish escapees from the Minsk Ghetto. One such group of former ghetto inmates was massacred together with the village residents in summer 1943, and the village was razed. The area was liberated by the Red Army in early July 1944. In the postwar years, Skirmantovo was rebuilt.