On November 24, 1941, the Jews of Kozłowszczyzna, both natives and recent arrivals who had sought refuge there, were shot in the forest 1-1.5 kilometers south of the village. The pits had been dug earlier that day by local peasants. Estimates of the number of victims, some of whom came from the surrounding villages, range from 300 to 770. The discrepancy can be attributed to the fact that some accounts include the refugees in the number of victims, while others do not. In the following days, the Germans continued to search for Jews who had gone into hiding. Many of them were found and killed. That massacre was perpetrated by the German gendarmerie, who were assisted by Belorussian and Lithuanian policemen.
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From the final report of the investigation by the Special Commission of the Lenin partisan detachment:
...On January 1, 1944, the Special Commission of the Lenin Partisan Unit for Ascertaining the Atrocities of the German-Fascist Invaders in the Kozlovshchina District [names of the members follow], having interrogated the peasants [their names follow], ascertained that:
...After the arrival of German authorities in the village of Kozlovshchina, 480 Jews were registered. On November 24, the Jews were taken into the forest; 400 people were shot, while the rest ran away. On the morning of November 25, 1941, the Lithuanians shot 18 people – including three children held in the arms of their parents, who were killed with a pistol. Of the local population, the following [people] searched for Jews and handed them over to the Germans to be shot: S.M. from the Podol' estate; I.K. from the Kozlovshchina estate, and Ivan Anisko, [who] brought Falovich and his wife Esia [to the Germans]. The Germans abused these Jews, beat them with their fists and with sticks, and then shot the husband, doused his wife with water, left her out in the cold for two hours, and then shot her.
The total number of those shot was 490....