Murder Story of Minsk Jews in Masyukovshchina

According to one testimony, in December 1941 (probably during the mass-murder operation of early December 1941) an unidentified group of several thousand Jews of all ages and both sexes were taken to Masyukovshchina, an area northwest of Minsk (now part of Minsk), and shot near the site known as Petrashkevichi, or Petrashkevich's Farmstead, in the vicinity of the 352nd Soviet POW Base Camp. According to testimonies gathered by East German investigation offices and cited by the German historian Christian Gerlach, as well as the postwar testimony of the former commander of the Order Police in the General Commissariat of White Ruthenia (who, however, erroneously identified Drozdy as the killing site), some Jews from the ghetto were also taken to this site during the massacre of March 2-3, 1942, and shot there. Furthermore, according to the materials of the postwar German judicial proceedings cited by Christian Gerlach, the Nazis also used Petrashkevich's Farmstead as a killing site during the large-scale massacre of July 28-31, 1942. The victims were both local and foreign Jews.