On September 21, 1942, the day of Yom Kippur in the Jewish year 5703, German and Belarusian policemen rounded up all the remaining Jews of Miadzioł Nowy and Miadzioł Stary, singled out fifty "specialists" (skilled artisans) and their families, and then shot seventy people in the Bor Forest, which lies 2 kilometers south of Miadzioł, near Lake Batoryn and the Minsk-Naroch road.
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From Henia Menkis' memoir, “Myadel un umgegnt”
...[B]efore the eve of Yom Kippur [i.e., before September 20, 1942], … the partisans informed us that a new massacre in the town was being prepared, and that we had to flee into the forests, but without the children. We organized ourselves and settled on Yom Kippur eve [as the day of the departure]. Meanwhile, the Germans arrived from Oszmiana…, bringing along their Jewish helpers, mostly degraded and shameless people, who had become loyal lackeys of their German overlords. Aware that we were planning an escape, they threatened to denounce us to the Germans. We begged them not to do that, and had to promise them that we wouldn’t flee. Thus, not everyone was informed that the date of the escape had been changed, and not everyone could join in the escape on that day…. Then, on Friday [September 18], in the night, a group of 300 people [sic] left Myadel…. We would later learn that, immediately after our flight from Myadel, a horrific massacre did indeed take place there; seventy Jews were murdered….