On 13.07.1942, in the Orthodox cemetery (now Zagorodnaya Street), the German occupiers executed representatives of the Polish intelligentsia from the Baranovichi district who had been arrested in June of that year. Before the execution, the victims were massacred in the prison courtyard and forced to remove their outer clothes. They were tied up with barbed wire. Ten SS men and Belorussian police officers from Baranovichi took part in the execution of the victims. After the liberation of the city, an exhumation was carried out in 1945. The four graves contained the corpses of at least 400 people, including 17 Catholic priests, many army officers, teachers, lawyers, doctors, pharmacists, veterinarians, and craftsmen. At that time, the graves were cleaned up and one Polish woman had them fenced with wire and oak posts, and an oak cross was erected. In the 1960s or early 1970s, the then municipal authorities erected a monument with an inscription in Polish and Russian stating that Poles were buried here. The inscription in Polish contained mistakes, so on 12.09.1999 on the initiative of the Polish Club in Baranavichy and with the participation of the Council for the Protection of Memory of Struggle and Martyrdom with the consent of the municipal authorities a new plaque was unveiled on the mass grave. A winding path between the gravestones leads to the monument. It is made of concrete tiles. This path surrounds a quarter consisting of several grave fields, delineated by stone posts connected by low stone curbs. Decorative flowers are growing in the quarters. In the western part of the quatrefoil is a simple memorial: a high base, on it two low, straight supports, in turn supported by a standing slab. On the front side of the slab is a bilingual inscription - Polish and Russian. On the alley side, the plaque is centrally decorated with an engraved burning candle with a star-shaped base. The posts and curbs of the grave field as well as the bases and the memorial slab are made of light grey granite, the new plaque on the memorial is made of black granite. The content of the inscription: "HERE REST / REPRESENTATIVES OF THE POLISH INTELLIGENTSIA / IMPRISONED AND EXECUTED / BY THE NAZIS / ON 13 JULY 1942". A list of 48 names follows, ending with the formula "AND OTHER NN".