On December 5-8, 1941, most of the Jews were gathered in Nowogródek’s court building on Minsk Street. On December 8, 1941, after a selection process, the women, children, elderly and male unskilled workers were separated and brought by truck to the area near the village of Skrydlewo. Altogether 4,000-5,100 Jews, including elderly Jews previously imprisoned in the Nazarene School Building, were then shot. Members of the SiPO branch from Baranowicze, the first division of Company 7 of Infantry Battalion 727 of the Wehrmacht, and local gendarmes carried out the murders, with the assistance of auxiliary police forces recruited from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, as well as local Polish and Belarussian police. The victims were buried in two pits.
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... The witness David Balfovich from Novogrudok [Nowogrodek] told about the torture and barbaric massacre of Novogrudok County’s civilians:
On December 6, 1941, the Fascists ordered Novogrudok’s entire population to stay in their homes from 6 pm until a special order was issued.
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the German executioners searched the houses and drove people to the camp situated on Minsk Street in the town of Novogrudok. About 7,000 people were transported within one day. The following day, from 8 am, trucks arrived and exported the people to a mass murder site. The German murderers enjoyed the execution. They put planks across the pit and shot the victims at the same time.
In just one pit, four kilometers from Novogrudok in the Skrydlevo [Skrydlewo] district, 6,000 civilians were brutally executed ....
Report from the end 1944 by committee head Rabbi M. R. Rogatinskiy of Nowogrodek and two other members of the committee:
... On December 8, 1941, a mass murder of Novogrudok [Nowogrodek] Jewry was carried out by the German fiends and their comrades-in-arms; some 4,500 (four thousand, five hundred) people were killed. The murder was carried out in the following way: on December 5, 1941, all the Jews of Novogrudok and its surroundings were driven to the circuit court on Minsk Street, where the Belarussian police kept them outside, in temperatures of –20 degrees Centigrade, until morning. On December 8, 1941, the Gestapo arrived and carried out a selection. They then transported the people by truck to the site just past the Novogrudok barracks [Skrydlowo], shot them and buried them alive in two pits, 40 meters long and 3 meters wide ....