A photo catalog of the burials of this cemetery is available at the LINK

Klintsy is a regional center in the Bryansk region of Russia. According to the 1939 census, 6.5 thousand Jews lived here. Data on the number of those drafted into the Red Army and evacuees has not been preserved. Eyewitnesses of the events in their memoirs said that they did not want to leave, since official Soviet propaganda hushed up the crimes of the Nazis in the already occupied territories, and many local Jews did not consider the advancing German troops as a serious threat.

The Nazis occupied the city on August 20, 1941. The invaders registered the Jewish population, introduced restrictive measures, forcing them to wear yellow armbands and forbidding them to communicate with the non-Jewish population of Klintsy.

At the end of September 1941, the invaders carried out the first extermination aktion, shooting 165 Jews. At the same time, two closed ghettos were created on the territory of the city: in the area of ​​the village of Bannyi and in the hostel of the factory named after the October Revolution. According to eyewitnesses, on the eve of the resettlement, the invaders confiscated valuables from the Jews. The prisoners were used for hard work and were fed with waste from the soldiers' canteens.

Already on October 9, 1941, the Nazis carried out another extermination aktion, shooting more than 80 people who were declared "Jewish terrorists" and communists.

The ghetto in Klintsy existed until December 1941. At the beginning of the month, on December 6 and 7, the Nazis carried out an extermination aktion. Trenches from shells were used to shoot the prisoners. The bodies of the dead were only lightly covered with frozen earth. As established by the City Commission on the Investigation of Nazi Crimes, the invaders did not use bullets to kill children. Babies got their heads smashed against trees, and older ones were finished off with rifle butts.

It is known that the December aktion was not the last. In March-April 1942, the Nazis shot about 100 more Jews, who were left alive as specialists.

After the liberation of the city in September 1943, the Crime Investigation Commission discovered seven pits, in which 2.8 thousand people were buried. In total, according to various sources, in Klintsy the invaders killed from 3.2 to 4 thousand Jews.

According to historians, on the territory of the Bryansk region, only 4% of the ghetto prisoners managed to escape death. Among the residents of Klintsy there were also those who saved Jews. For example, Maria Starodubtseva was awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations in 1996.

The monument to those killed in the city appeared in 1954. The nationality and names of the victims were not indicated on it.