Murder Story of Nowogródek Jews in Skrydlewo

... 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 ....

... 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 ....