Red Army soldiers. Most of the remaining local Jews perished in the Vitebsk Ghetto massacre of October 1941. The Germans also operated a Nazi prison, the...

Ghetto in Minsk, today's capital of the Republic of Belarus, holding 100,000 Jews Bobruisk Ghetto Babruysk holding 25,000 Jews Vitebsk Ghetto Vitebsk...

in the Łódź Ghetto appointed by Nazi Germany during the German occupation of Poland. Rumkowski accrued much power by transforming the ghetto into an industrial...

The Dzyatlava Ghetto, Zdzięcioł Ghetto, or Zhetel Ghetto (in Yiddish) was a Nazi ghetto in the town of Dzyatlava, Western Belarus during World War II...

and fine art prints. Chagall was born in 1887, into a Jewish family near Vitebsk, today in Belarus, but at that time in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian...

Vilna Ghetto), Grodno (the Grodno Ghetto), Lida, Bielsk-Podlaski, Nevel, Lepel, Surazh, Vyazma, Gzhatsk, Mozhaisk, Vitebsk (the Vitebsk Ghetto), Smolensk...

of the Jewish Combat Organization and one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Other members of the movement were involved in Jewish resistance...

family members had been killed in the ghetto on 8 December 1941. In the spring of 1942, together with 13 ghetto neighbors, they formed the nucleus of...

[ˈlʲepʲɪlʲ]; Polish: Lepel; Yiddish: ליעפּליע, romanized: Li'epli'e) is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus, located near Lyepyel Lake on the Vula River. It serves...

(Rezhitsa ...), Minsk (Borisov, Pinsk, Mozyr, Bobruisk, Parichi ...), Vitebsk (Beshankovichy, Liozna, Lyady ...), Warsaw, Łódź, Siedlce, Płock, Suwałki...

fighters during the Holocaust, particularly those involved in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, were members of Poale Zion. They include: Adolf Berman, Warsaw...

equality in 1795. The revolutionary and Napoleonic regimes abolished Jewish ghettoes in the territories they conquered. Napoleon wished to assimilate Jews into...

Stanisławów Ghetto officially closed from the outside and sealed with walls. Vilna Ghetto 400 Jews killed by Lithuanian militias inside the ghetto. 21 December...

declared the creation of the Western Oblast, which unified the Vilna, Vitebsk, Mogilev and Minsk governorates that were not occupied by the German army...

Lithuanian: Glubokas; Yiddish: גלובאָק, romanized: Glubok) is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Hlybokaye District...

split between different regional principalities, including Polotsk, Turov, Vitebsk, and others. Following the Mongol invasions of the 13th century, these...

Krai: Mogilev Governorate Polotsk Governorate (later reorganized into Vitebsk Governorate) Little Russia (Ukraine): Kiev Governorate Chernigov Governorate...

(1772-1776), Polotsk (1776-1796), Belarusian (1796-1802), and finally Vitebsk (1802-1917), first as Dinaburg, then Dvinsk later during Russian rule....

Irène Némirovsky's career as well as in her inner self. In a Ukrainian ghetto, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II, little Ada Sinner lives with her...

administration, the territory of Belarus was divided into the guberniyas of Minsk, Vitebsk, Mogilyov, and Hrodna. Belarusians were active in the guerrilla movement...

modern Jewish plastic artist. A book of Yiddish folk-ornament, printed at Vitebsk in 1920, was similar to Chagall's own bestiary. But the resistance of pious...

Soviet Supreme Command (Stavka) Reserve. The 19th Army was forming up at Vitebsk, while the 16th Army was arriving at Smolensk. In Soviet histories, the...

area of 500 or 600 km2, around Minsk, Pinsk, Gomel, Briansk, Smolensk and Vitebsk, including the principal roads and railways in these areas. Occupations...

structures and propaganda activity. Yitzhak Arad was active in the Vilna Ghetto underground movement from 1942 to 1944. In February 1943, he joined the...

was launched in 2010, and operates worldwide in cities such as Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Leeds, Munich, Buenos Aires and New York. Its director is Rabbi Shimon...

the end of the war, the majority of the Jewish refugees from the Shanghai ghetto left for Israel and the United States. Two deans of the Mir Yeshiva, Rabbi...

Poland in 1772, Ludza was taken over by the Russian Empire and added to Vitebsk Governorate. Ludza received town rights in 1777 from Catherine II of Russia...

several hundred of his students, Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk and 300 of his followers, and over 500 disciples (and their families) of...

Print. "Abraham Gancwajch – The "13" – Nazi Collaborators in the Warsaw Ghetto by The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team | Love for Life". loveforlife...

revival. In 1907 bishop Eduard von der Ropp was expelled from Vilnius to Vitebsk.[citation needed] During World War I, Vilnius was occupied by Germany from...