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The Shoah (1939–1945)

Liquidation of the Minsk ghetto

Oct. 1943·Minsk

Toll
~4 000

The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.

The last great ghetto of Belarus is liquidated, the survivors gassed at Maly Trostenets.

The closed quarter of Minsk, the largest in Belarus, had resisted longer than the others: a clandestine organization was moving groups through to the partisan detachments in the surrounding forests.

It was liquidated in the autumn, its last inhabitants taken to the estate of Maly Trostenets, on the outskirts of the city, and killed by gas van. The pre-war registers of Minsk had already been destroyed; the count of the last inhabitants held within rests on the testimonies of those who escaped.

Period :
The Shoah (1939–1945)
Type :
Shoah
Region :
Central and Eastern Europe
Country :
Biélorussie
Sources

Yad Vashem, *The Untold Stories* ; Mémorial de Maly Trostenets ; Hersh Smolar, *The Minsk Ghetto*.

At the same place6

  1. octobre 1905Pogrom of the October Manifesto~100
  2. août 1919Pogrom upon the entry of Polish troops~31
  3. Nov. 1941Massacre of Minsk~12 000
  4. 1942-1944Maly Trostenets40 000-65 000
  5. 28-31 juill. 1942Great action in the Minsk ghetto~10 000
  6. 13 janv. 1948Persecution of the Jewish Antifascist Committee1

In the same country110

  1. 1563Capture of the city by Ivan the Terrible~300
  2. 1648Khmelnytsky Massacresmilliers
  3. 1648Khmelnytsky massacresinconnu
  4. 1650Khmelnytsky Massacresinconnu
  5. 1654Taking of Polotsk by the Russian armyinconnu
  6. juillet 1654Capture of Mstsislaw by the troops of Troubetskoïmilliers
  7. novembre 1654Capture of Vitebsk by the Russian armytoute la communauté
  8. 1655Russo-Polish warinconnu

And 102 more in the catalogue.

Event 2114 of 2483, in chronological order · The Shoah (1939–1945): 915 events in the catalogue

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