Murder story of Raygorodok Jews in the Raygorodok Forest

In August 1941, upon the orders of the county administration office and under the supervision of the registration clerk…, a reregistration of the population of the village [of Raygorodok] took place. As a result, it was determined that there were 129 Jewish individuals who had not been evacuated, and who happened to remain under the jurisdiction of the rural authorities. In light of this information, in September 1941 the gendarmes who had come to the rural council, in cooperation with the village police, arrested the Jewish population, as many as 120 people. They [the Gendarmerie and the police] rounded up the Jews in a grocery store, whereupon the village headman and the registration clerk drew up a list of the arrestees. Several professionals were spared and allowed to continue working in the village. Afterward, the Gendarmerie loaded some sixty Jewish residents onto trucks, took them to an area outside the village, and shot them all. The property of the executed Jews was looted.