Murder Story of Shepelevichi Jews at Lake Khotomlyanskoye

[...]Sometimes at the middle of the end of August Germans from Belynichi arrived in Shepelevichi. They have ordered all the Jews to take the bath, have herded them to the outskirts of the village and driven toward Khotoml lake. There were 30-40 people [Jews]: old people, women and children. Local villagers were ordered to dig for them a grave in advance. Jews went silently, there was not noise and outcry, even though they clearly knew they are going to die. They did not carry with them anything, all was left in the huts, since Fascists have prohibited to take anything with them. There were few sentries, they were walking on the sides, they knew that these helpless people could not run anywhere. About 400 meters from the village, at the edge of the forest, the procession stopped and the shooting started. Than terrible outcries were heard. It was said that afterwards this place slightly covered with corn was moving for several days[...]

... Late in the autumn [of 1941] the killers assembled almost all of the remaing Jews, about 60 people, except for the old women and some of the children, and shot them at the place that is now called "Zhidy" ["kikes"]. Women, old women, and children, the few who were left alive, were taken to Krugloye and murdered there....