 The graves were dug by the inhabitants of the nearby village, Mashchanitsa.The Jewish men were killed during a previous Aktion in September 1941 near Niropla.After the first murder operation conducted in August or September 1941, the remaining Jews of Byalynichy, as well as refugees from Poland who had arrived in 1939 and 1940 — about 600 people in all, were concentrated in a ghetto established on a single street.