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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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    Dzyatlava or Dyatlovo (Belarusian: Дзятлава, romanized: Dziatlava; Russian: Дятлово; Polish: Zdzięcioł; Yiddish: זשעטל, romanized: Zhetl) is a town in...
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    The Dzyatlava massacres were two consecutive mass shooting actions carried out three months apart during the Holocaust. The town of Zdzięcioł (Yiddish:...
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    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Zdzięcioł (Djatlowo) Ghetto, site of Dzyatlava massacre Annopol Ghetto, Reichskommissariat Ukraine (now Ukraine) Bobruisk Ghetto, Military...
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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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    Zdzięcioł Ghetto, occupied Poland, holding over 4,500 Jews, the site of the Dzyatlava massacre, modern Dzyatlava, Belarus The Nazi ghettos set up in Soviet...
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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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    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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    death camps. About 24,000 of the victims were Latvian Jews from the Riga Ghetto and approximately 1,000 were German Jews transported to the forest by train...
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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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    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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    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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  • family were forced to live in the Zdziedciol Ghetto (also known as the Dzyatlava Ghetto), in the town of Dzyatlava, in what is now Western Belarus. The family...
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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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    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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    Ghettos Brest Grodno Dzyatlava Kobryn Lakhva Minsk Rakaŭ Pinsk Slonim Concentration camps Davidovka concentration camp Koldichevo Extermination sites and...
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  • Góra Dzyatlava massacre Maly Trostenets Slutsk affair Resistance Bielski partisans Łachwa Ghetto uprising Słonim Ghetto Jewish revolt Minsk Ghetto resistance...
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    The Pińsk Ghetto (Polish: Getto w Pińsku; Belarusian: Пінскае гета) was a Nazi ghetto created by Nazi Germany for the confinement of Jews living in the...
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    Liepāja ghetto was established, there were only about 814 surviving Jews. The ghetto itself consisted of only 11 houses on four streets. Until the ghetto was...
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    Góra Dzyatlava massacre Maly Trostenets Slutsk affair Resistance Bielski partisans Łachwa Ghetto uprising Słonim Ghetto Jewish revolt Minsk Ghetto resistance...
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    Góra Dzyatlava massacre Maly Trostenets Slutsk affair Resistance Bielski partisans Łachwa Ghetto uprising Słonim Ghetto Jewish revolt Minsk Ghetto resistance...
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    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...
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  • Ghettos Brest Grodno Dzyatlava Kobryn Lakhva Minsk Rakaŭ Pinsk Slonim Concentration camps Davidovka concentration camp Koldichevo Extermination sites and...
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  • Soviet POWs, most of them from nearby Vilnius, and its newly formed Vilna Ghetto. Lithuania became one of the first locations outside occupied Poland in...
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    1942 Dünamünde Action Dzyatlava Łużki Iwieniec Marków Horodziej Mereczowszczyzna Sarny...
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    federation of local Bundist groups around the world. A leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 was Bundist Marek Edelman. In West Belarus, areas that...
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    Góra Dzyatlava massacre Maly Trostenets Slutsk affair Resistance Bielski partisans Łachwa Ghetto uprising Słonim Ghetto Jewish revolt Minsk Ghetto resistance...
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    The Rakaŭ Ghetto was established on 21 August 1941 in Rakaŭ, in the Byelorussian SSR (present-day Belarus), soon after the city's capture by Nazi Germany...
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    (2003-11-01). Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto. Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-1-4668-0434-0. Sears, Dovid (1997). The...
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    "Lwów". In Geoffrey P. Megargee (ed.). Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945. Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe. Vol. II, part A. The United...
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