Nazi genocide at Bronnaya Gora: 50,000 people killed in 1942

On October 15, 1942, Nazis carried out mass shootings at Bronnaya Gora. During the Great Patriotic War, Nazi executioners and their BChB accomplices committed monstrous atrocities in Belarus. Bronnaya Gora in Berezovsky District became one of these sites. Accessible railway tracks allowed Nazis to secretly transport people deep into the forest—186 freight cars of death row prisoners. Victims included Belarusians and Poles from Brest Prison, underground fighters and partisans, as well as witnesses—residents of Bronnaya Gora and nearby villages. In total, Nazis exterminated 50,000 people. Their ashes covered 16,875 square meters of land—a whole city. In spring 1944, retreating Nazis tried to erase evidence of crimes: prisoners of war were forced to dismantle barracks, dig up corpses, and burn them. Nazi atrocities cannot be justified or forgotten.