Minsk Ghetto
| Minsk Ghetto | |
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Map of the Minsk Ghetto by professor Barbara Epstein | |
| Also known as | German: Ghetto Minsk |
| Location | Minsk, German-occupied Belarus |
| Date | 20 July 1941 to 21 October 1943 |
| Incident type | Imprisonment, mass shootings, forced labor, starvation, mass deportations to Sobibor |
| Perpetrators | Nazi Germany |
| Organizations | Schutzstaffel (SS), Einsatzgruppen |
| Camp | Maly Trostenets, Sobibor |
| Victims | 70,000–100,000 |
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| Memorials | |
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 the German-occupied territory of the Soviet Union. It housed close to 100,000 Jews, most of whom were murdered in The Holocaust.