Murder Story of Kholmech Jews on the Banks of the Dnieper River in Kholmech

... On the fourth day of the occupation four German soldiers arrived in the village of Kholmech and ordered all the residents of the village to come to the square. When the people had gathered, the Germans ordered the Jews to move to the left and the Belarusians to the right. After that the Germans, who were armed with machine-guns, took the Jews - old people, women, and children - under guard, from the village to the Dnieper, where the 35 Jews - elderly people, women, and children – were shot dead near a ravine. In the evening of the same day their bodies were buried in the ravine....