Murder story of Kolyshki Jews in the Market Square in Kolyshki

On March 16, 1942, a German punitive squad arrived at Kolyshki. On March 17, 1942, the squad unit members as well as the local policemen forced the Jews out of their homes and collected them at the local market square. They set some of the houses afire as well as made a bonfire at the square. There some of the Jews, according to several sources, children, were burnt in the fire, while other ones were found in hiding in burning houses and shot. The number of the Jewish victims murdered that day remains unknown.