Murder Story of Dzerzhinsk Jews in Klypovshchina

According to different sources, in the early July 1941 a murder operation against the local Jewish male population was carried out. The Germans gathered the men on the pretext of sending them to work. Instead, they were taken to the birch grove in the vicinity of Klypovshchina village located 4 kilometers way from the town. There they were sho to death. After the operation the Judenrat was ordered to collect gold and cash from the Jewish families in order to release the Jewish men, who they believed were being kept hostage by the Germans. In fact, they had already been shot in the forest near the town. Some sources say, the vicitms numbered 16 but probably they were more.