At the end of September 1941 the Germans collected about 400 Jews of Dribin in several houses of the town. After a week, on September 30 (according to the inscription on the monument at the Jewish cemetery, on October 7) members of Einsatzkommando 8 , under the command of SS-Obersturmfuehrer Carl Ruhrberg, arrived in Dribin from Bobruisk. They ordered the Jews to put on their best clothes and take their valuables with them. Aided by local policemen the Germans took the Jews to a forest located two kilometers south of the town, near the village of Poloski, and shot them to death there.
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Matvey Shusovskiy, who was born in 1888 and lived in Dribin during the war, testified:
... As soon as the German troops occupied our village of Dribin, they immediately began to implement their goal of annihilating the civilian population, especially the Jews. In September 1941 a killing unit entered the village of Dribin and drove the approximately 400 Jews into eleven buildings, where they were kept under guard for seven days. On September 30, 1941 the Jews were told to take all their valuables and to put on their best clothes. When they had all gathered, they were taken by force to a woods located about two kilometers south of the village of Dribin, where they were all shot. After the shootings the killing unit took all the valuables for themselves....