page_title: Mass murders in Tykocin
section_title: Massacre
hierarchical_section_title: Mass murders in Tykocin / Massacre
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Grób zbiorowy Żydów z Tykocina - miejsce masakry w lesie łopuchowskim (25 sierpnia 1941). Oznaczony grób zbiorowy oraz pomniki upamiętniające masakrę. English: Mass grave of Jews from Tykocin - the place of the massacre in the forest near Łopuchowo (August 25th, 1941). Marked mass grave and monuments commemorating the massacre.
context_page_description: The Mass murders in Tykocin occurred in August 25, 1941, during World War II, where the local Jewish population of Tykocin was killed by German Einsatzkommando.
context_section_description: On the morning of 24 August, the Germans announced that Jews should report the next day, to the town square. At the time there were approximately 1,400 Jews in Tykocin. On 25 August the Jews were rounded up in the square by the Germans with help from Polish police. In order to placate the crowd the Germans told the Jews that they were going to be transported to Białystok Ghetto. The men were marched to a nearby village and from there in trucks to the pits in Łopuchowo forest, and murdered. The women and infirm were driven by truck to the pits and murdered. The old, infirm, and other people who did not show up on 25 August, some 700 in total, were driven to the pits on 26 August and shot.
  In a West German investigation, a Jewish witness identified SS-Obersturmführer Hermann Schaper, who commanded SS Einsatzkommando, as the man directing the shootings. 
  Some 150 Jews managed to escape the massacre, however most were handed over to the Germans. Some reached Białystok Ghetto, and shared the fate of the Jews there.
caption: Mass grave of Jews from Tykocin - the place of the massacre in the forest near Łopuchowo. Marked mass grave and monuments commemorating the massacre.
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