Vitebsk Ghetto or Witebsk Ghetto was a short-lived ghetto in the town of Vitebsk in modern-day Belarus. It was created soon after the German invasion of...
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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...
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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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Ukraine) Vitebsk Ghetto, Military Administration in the Soviet Union (now Belarus) Žagarė Ghetto, Reichskommissariat Ostland (now Lithuania) Zagreb Ghetto, Croatia...
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Vilna Ghetto), Grodno (the Grodno Ghetto), Lida, Bielsk-Podlaski, Nevel, Lepel, Surazh, Vyazma, Gzhatsk, Mozhaisk, Vitebsk (the Vitebsk Ghetto), Smolensk...
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Russian: Лужки; Polish: Łużki) is a village in Sharkawshchyna District, Vitebsk Region, in northern Belarus. Łużki was a former possession of the Sapieha...
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Ivan Sollertinsky (category Writers from Vitebsk)
birthplace of Vitebsk, which was associated with famous Jewish artist Marc Chagall, and had a sizeable Jewish population until the Vitebsk Ghetto Massacre...
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The Ghetto in Baran (September 1941 – April 8, 1942) was a Jewish ghetto, a site of forced relocation for the Jews of Baran in the Orsha District of the...
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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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Lyozna (category Populated places in Vitebsk Region)
in Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Lyozna District. It is located 45 kilometres (28 mi) east-southeast of Vitebsk, close...
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Beshankovichy (category Populated places in Vitebsk Region)
romanized: Beshenkovichi; Polish: Bieszenkowicze) is an urban-type settlement in Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Beshankovichy...
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Sharkawshchyna (category Populated places in Vitebsk Region)
שאַרקוישטשינע, romanized: Sharkoyshtchine) is an urban-type settlement in Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It is located 160 kilometres (99 mi) north of the capital...
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Ushachy (category Populated places in Vitebsk Region)
Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Ushachy District. The settlement is located 101 kilometres (63 mi) west of Vitebsk...
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Shumilina, Belarus (category Populated places in Vitebsk Region)
settlement in Shumilina District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It is located 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Vitebsk. As of 2024, it has a population of...
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(Belarusian: Ляды; Russian: Ляды) is an agrotown in Dubrowna District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It is adjacent to the Belarus–Russia border. Until 2008...
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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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The Brześć Ghetto or the Ghetto in Brest on the Bug, also: Brześć nad Bugiem Ghetto, and Brest-Litovsk Ghetto (Polish: getto w Brześciu nad Bugiem, Yiddish:...
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Obal (urban-type settlement) (category Populated places in Vitebsk Region)
Обаль; Russian: Оболь) is an urban-type settlement in Shumilina District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It is located 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of Polotsk...
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Dokshytsy (category Populated places in Vitebsk Region)
Yiddish: דאקשיץ, romanized: Dokshitz; Lithuanian: Dokšica) is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Dokshytsy District...
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The Grodno Ghetto (Polish: getto w Grodnie, Belarusian: Гродзенскае гета, Hebrew: גטו גרודנו) was a Nazi ghetto established in November 1941 by Nazi Germany...
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Łachwa (or Lakhva) Ghetto was a Nazi ghetto in Łachwa, Poland (now Lakhva in Belarus) during World War II. The ghetto was created with the aim of persecution...
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Chaim Rumkowski (category Łódź Ghetto inmates)
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...
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Haradok (category Populated places in Vitebsk Region)
Гарадок, IPA: [ɣaraˈdok]; Russian: Городок; Polish: Horodek) is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Haradok District...
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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...
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Braslaw (category Populated places in Vitebsk Region)
Russian: Браслав; Lithuanian: Breslauja; Polish: Brasław) is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Braslaw District...
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Baran, Belarus (category Populated places in Vitebsk Region)
Барань; Polish: Barań; Lithuanian: Baranis) is a town in Orsha District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It is located in the southeast of the region and a few...
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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...
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Yanavichy (category Populated places in Vitebsk Region)
urban-type settlement in Vitebsk District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It is located about 36 kilometres (22 mi) east of Vitebsk. As of 2024, it has a population...
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Lyepyel (category Populated places in Vitebsk Region)
[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...
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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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