Murder story of Smorgonie Jews in the Tałminowo Area

In October 1942 the Germans began to liquidate the Smorgonie ghetto and to transfer its Jews to other places. They sent 1,600 Jews to the ghetto of Oszmiana. After the arrival of the Smorgonie Jews in Oszmiana, the Germans carried out a selection, after which they took about 500 "useless" Jews to the vicinity of the Talminowo village, west of Oszmiana, and shot them there. Some survivors identify the site with the Żielonka farm (khutor), in fact, at the edge of Tolminovo, while other survivors identify it with the Uglejewo farm (does not exist anymore), one kilometer south of Talminowo.