Murder Story of Senno Jews at the Senno Old Jewish Cemetery

... The first method of liquidation of the Jewish people was the following: the Germans shot 12 people for being late for work. Their (last) names are unknown. This was on October 16, 1941. The second barbaric deed was that the shooting of 7 people due to their failure to put out the lights in their houses. It was on November 21, 1941. The most terrible operation that remained in the memory of all of Senno's inhabitants took place on December 30, 1941. On December 29, 1941 SS units arrived in Senno. Together with the police, they surrounded Golynka Street, where the Jews were located. All the Jews were driven out of their houses and told they were going to be sent to Orsha to work. Then, in groups of 40, they were taken out of town toward Kozlovka village, where pits had been prepared. They were taken to the pits alive and then ordered to lie down there. That is how 965 people were shot. The shooting lasted from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The adults were shot and the children were thrown [into the pit] alive.… The first purge took place at the end of January 1942, when nine residents of Senno…, including Gurevich, were shot. In March 1942 a second purge took place when the Levin family, consisting of 3 members, the father [?], the daughter Lubov, and her son, was shot. In 1942 there was the last purge, that of Jewish and Russian children [of mixed marriages]. This took place in February 1944 [sic, for 1942] when the following children [and some of their parents] were shot: Novikova and her two children, Yermolinevich's wife and their three children, Meltsyn with her three children, Basharilova with her one child, Naputkin's three children, and Feleykova's son and Garnak's daughter… The two mass graves of the Jews are on a hill near the former Jewish cemetery, 20 meters to the right of the Senno-Kozlovka road....