Murder story of Dworzec Jews in the Kucki Forest

A site located 2 kilometers north of Dworzec was used twice for the mass murder of Jews: in the summer of 1942, when the Germans liquidated "unneeded" Jews of the Dworzec ghetto, and at the end of December 1942, when the Germans liquidated the ghetto and most of the labor camp in Dworzec.

At the end of the summer of 1942 the Germans used this site to murder 370 (or, according to other sources, 600) Jews from the Dworzec ghetto.

On December 28 (or on December 13, according to a different source), 1942, the Nazis carried out their main murder operation. The day before the murder German and Latvian SS forces arrived in Dworzec and surrounded the town. They ordered local peasants to dig pits on the left side of the Dworzec-Nowojelnia road, 500 meters from Kucki village. On the next day Belorussian auxiliary police assembled the Jews on the square of the ghetto-camp under the pretext of their imminent transfer to Bobruisk. The Jews, 2,500-3,000 in number, were taken to the pits under guard and shot to death there. Many other Jews had succeeded in constructing shelters in the ghetto and had gone into hiding. However, the Germans set fire to the ghetto to flush out the Jews concealed in the shelters; those Jews were also murdered at the site. The massacre continued from 10 a.m. until nighttime.