On September 22, 1941, on this hilltop overlooking rolling agricultural fields and hamlets just south of Minsk, German Nazi troops rounded up and executed 1,260 Jewish men, women and children from the nearby village of Puchovichi. Following the end of the war, a large concrete plinth was placed over the large mass grave of the adults and a smaller slab over the grave of the children. Over the decades since the war, the land fell into succession and was covered by woodland, with the grave site in a grass clearing that was mown annually by the town.

In 2010 a descendant from a family that had emigrated from Puchovichi just prior to the war approached KMDG to design a memorial for the site, funded by donations and a non-profit organization. The proposed memorial establishes a path of granite markers from the rural road, creating a permanent path to the site. The route crosses the actively farmed fields, and along the edge of the woodland. A granite wall terminates the path and its line of markers with an interpretative plaque and guides visitors up the hill to the gravesite. The existing gravesite markers are framed with a new edge of granite that allows maintenance to be clear of the slabs, and provides a means to walk around the panels. A series of benches allow rest and reflection among a newly planted enclosure of trees, making the site and making it visible from the road.