On December 4, 1941 Germans and local policemen surrounded the ghetto and took 700 ghetto inmates to pits near the local MTS (machine-tractor station), where they were shot to death.
ChGK Soviet Reports from Lyuban
.... German murder squads carried out the shooting of innocent civilians, mostly Jews, at the machine-tractor station on the outskirts of the village of Lyuban. One pit, 8 meters long, 4 meters wide, and 2.5 meters deep, has been discovered; 700 people are buried here. A second pit, 4 meters long, 3 meters wide, and 2.5 meters deep, contains the remains of 250 people. A third pit, 3.5 meters long, 2.5 meters wide, and 2 meters deep, contains the bodies of 200 people who were covered over there in 1943.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-82-5 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20000
Lyuban
agricultural machinery and tractor station
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
52.797;28.006
Monument at the murder site, general view. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2013.