Murder story of Belaya Glina Jews in the Belaya Glina Forest

On August 8, 1942 the Germans arrested some Jews and took them to the Gestapo headquarters in Belaya Glina. Afterward, the Germans took them to the forest about four kilometers south of town. After the Jews were forced to take off their clothes, the Germans shot them to death. Between late autumn and winter of 1942, the Germans collected at Gestapo headquqrters all the refugees in the area who had made their way to County the from the western areas of the Soviet Union. Then the Germans took the refugees to the forestvon grey trucks. Approximately 3,000 people were shot to death there; among them were many Jewish civilians.