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    The Minsk Ghetto was created soon after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. It was one of the largest in the Byelorussian SSR, and the largest in...
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    The Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto or the Mińsk Ghetto (Polish: Getto w Mińsku Mazowieckim, Yiddish: נאוואמינסק, Novominsk) was a World War II ghetto set up by...
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  • on 20 July 1941, the creation of the Minsk Ghetto was pronounced. Within two years, it became the largest ghetto in the German-occupied Soviet Union,...
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    ghettos was also met with armed struggle: Kraków Ghetto Łódź Ghetto Lwów Ghetto Lutsk Ghetto Marcinkonys Ghetto Minsk Ghetto Pińsk Ghetto Riga Ghetto...
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    Maly Trostenets (category Geography of Minsk)
    the Minsk Ghetto, who numbered 39,000 to almost 100,000. The primary purpose of the camp was the murder of Jewish prisoners of the Minsk Ghetto and the...
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    Anatoly Rubin (category Minsk Ghetto inmates)
    later the Gulags. Born in Minsk, he survived the German invasion of the USSR, narrowly escaping the liquidation of the Minsk Ghetto. After the war, he spent...
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  • Karl Loewenstein (banker) (category Minsk Ghetto inmates)
    Germany to the Minsk Ghetto. There, he served in the Minsk Ghetto Police. The following year, he was transferred to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in the Protectorate...
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    The Słonim Ghetto (Polish: getto w Słonimiu, Belarusian: Слонімскае гета, German: Ghetto von Slonim, Yiddish: סלאָנים) was a Nazi ghetto established in...
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    Rychtal and Szubin were deported to Mińsk Mazowiecki. In October 1940, the occupiers established the Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto, which was eventually liquidated...
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    Marcinkance (Marcinkonys) Ghetto, today Lithuania Międzyrzec Podlaski (Mezritsh) Ghetto Mińsk Mazowiecki (Novominsk) Ghetto Mizocz Ghetto, today Ukraine Nowogródek...
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    invaded Poland in September 1939, occupation authorities began to establish ghettos to segregate Jews. Following the June 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union...
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    scarce. Minsk was the site of one of the largest Nazi-run ghettos in the Second World War, temporarily housing over 100,000 Jews (see Minsk Ghetto). Some...
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    Minsk Ghetto. The Minsk Ghetto was the fourth largest ghetto in Europe. The group was led by the Jewish communists. The group within the Minsk ghetto...
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    latter period, the majority of Jewish inhabitants were first amassed in a ghetto and then murdered by the Nazis in their extermination camps. Two Polish...
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    Judenplatz (1280-1421); Leopoldstadt Belarus Dziatlava: Zhetel ghetto Minsk: Minsk ghetto (appr. 100,000 Jews, local and deported from Austria, Germany...
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    Brest-Litovsk (see the Brześć Ghetto), Kobrin, Pruzhany, Slonim (the Słonim Ghetto), Baranovichi, Stowbtsy, Minsk (the Minsk Ghetto), Orsha, Klinzy, Briansk...
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    „Endlösung“ - Das Ghetto Minsk und die Vernichtungsstätte von Maly Trostinez. Berlin. p. 189. Fleming, Gerald. "The Camp of the German Jews in Minsk". nizkor.org...
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    Judenrat (section Ghettos)
    shipment.[citation needed] In a number of cases, such as the Minsk ghetto and the Łachwa ghetto, Judenräte cooperated with the resistance movement. In other...
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    Minsk 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...
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    for execution. Around 5 July 1941, Nebe consolidated Einsatzgruppe B near Minsk, establishing a headquarters and remaining there for two months. The murders...
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    deporting 50,000 Jews from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to ghettos in Minsk and Riga. Given his position, Heydrich was instrumental in carrying...
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    twenty Jewish Red Army POWs arrived at Sobibor on a transport from the Minsk Ghetto and were selected for labour. Among them was Alexander Pechersky, an...
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  • The Jewess and the Captain (category History of Minsk)
    eighteen-year-old Jewish girl, and Willi Schultz, the Nazi captain in charge of the Minsk Ghetto. After the Holocaust, Ilse Stein became a minor celebrity and the subject...
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    Heinrich Himmler attended a demonstration of a mass-shooting of Jews in Minsk that was arranged by Arthur Nebe, after which he vomited. Regaining his...
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    of German Jews to the east. Since the originally planned destination, Minsk Ghetto, was already overcrowded, subsequent deportation trains were rerouted...
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    surviving population was segregated that month into two separate ghettos of the city; one on Minsk Street and the other on Peresets Street, each surrounded by...
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    Group Centre The largest Jewish ghetto in Soviet Belarus before the conclusion of World War II was the Minsk Ghetto, created by the Germans shortly after...
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    1942 in Minsk; 47 Schutzmannschaft Bataillon, formed in July 1942 in Minsk; 48 Schutzmannschaft Ersatz-Bataillon, formed in July 1942 in Minsk; 48 Schutzmannschaft...
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    forces, patrolling the perimeters of the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland (the internal ghetto security issues were managed by the SS, SD, and...
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  • 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...
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