In December 1941, 380 Jews from Bogushevichi and Seliba were taken to a nearby place called Fridova Polyana and shot to death there. Only a few Jews managed to escape.
Related Resources
Soviet Reports
The Soviet report from Bogushevichi
Everywhere the Germans are carrying out a terror of extermination in regard to the innocent population of regions and towns. In the villages of Bogushevichi and Senno and the towns of Orsha and Lepel the Jewish populations have been totally annihilated.
NARB, MINSK 4п-33а-302 copy YVA M.41 / 3487
Fridova Polyana Urochishche
plot
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
53.700;28.816
Photos
Fridova Polyana. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2010.