Murder Story of Shklov Jews in Putniki

In August-September 1941 482 Jews of Shklov were shot in anti-tank trenches at the cemetery of the village of Putniki, several hundred meters southeast of Shklov, across the Dniepr River. In September 1941 at the Putniki cemetery the Germans shot 96 Jews of all ages and both sexes who had been held at the "Iskra" kolkhoz near Shklov. On October 3 or 4, several days after Yom Kippur, 1941, at the same place members of Einsatzkommando 8 shot 1,459 Jews from Shklov who had been held in the Ryzhkovichi ghetto. The Jews were first taken to the village of Maloye Zarechye, where they were robbed of their valuables. Then they were taken further southeast to the cemetery of Putniki, where they were machine-gunned to death.