Ivatsevichy

Ivacevicy is a metropolis inside the Brest Province of Belarus, an workplace of the Ivacevicy district. Before the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland, Iwacewicze changed into a provincial metropolis inside the Second Polish Republic, the seat of Kosow county with the population of round 1,500. It belonged to Polesie Voivodeship region of japanese Kresy, with a splendid Jewish population. Following the invasion, the range of Jews in Iwacewicze substantially multiplied due to influx of refugees from Nazi-occupied western a part of Poland. After the German assault on USSR in June 1941, the Nazis achieved mass executions of Jews on the Zwirownia gravel pit nearby.

Under a robust German protect, Jews had been marched out of metropolis and separated into smaller groups.They have been shot in waves over the already dug-out pits. Before 1944, the Nazis completed there more than a thousand innocent victims including prisoners of battle.In 1941 quickly after the Nazi takeover of Iwacewicze, a ghetto changed into installation for approximately six hundred Jews.