Memorial area at the Kamennyi Log murder site. Photographer: Inna Gerasimova.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615512
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Murder Story of Kholopenichi Jews in Kamennyi Log
Murder Site
Kamennyi Log
Belorussia (USSR)
On a Saturday in early September 1941 a killing squad of more than 100 men armed with sub-machine guns arrived in Kholopenichi. They assembled about 900 Jews, including refugees from different places in the vicinity, in a local clubhouse, on the pretext of moving them to another location. Whoever could not come on his own to the club was taken there in a cart. Afterwards, all of them were taken under guard to a ravine called Kamennyi Log, located one kilometer northeast of the village, and shot to death. On the same day and at the same place about 700 Jews from the town of Shamki were also murdered.
After the massacre local men were forced to bury the bodies of the victims.
Related Resources
Written Testimonies
ChGK Soviet Reports
Yevgeniy Lisovskiy, who was born in 1925, testified:
Interview by Inna Gerasimova
... When the war began, both in our village and in others [nearby] there were many Jews. People said that they had come here from far away, fleeing the Germans. I remember that it was some time in the fall. But it wasn't cold yet and I was working with my parents in the kitchen garden. Then we saw a long column of Jews was being led past, we knew that they were Jews. With them were also some of our village people. While they were being taken, we thought that they were being moved somewhere. But then we heard cries and shots. The shooting lasted a long time. Then we ran toward the place but were afraid to get too close. Later people said that on other occasions they shot Jews also from Shamki and other places, but I know that in this place the Germans only shot Jews....
The International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem
Kamennyi Log
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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Photos
Memorial area at the Kamennyi Log murder site. Photographer: Inna Gerasimova.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615512
Sketch illustrating the Kholopenichi County murder sites
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-87-16 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20010
Sign post pointing to the memorial site. Photographer: Inna Gerasimova.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615513