EASTERN BELORUSSIA REGION
The entirety of the eastern Belorussia region lay within the Belorussian SSR in 1938. After June 1941 and until the spring of 1942, the German military authorities and the Einsatzgruppen established some 101 ghettos or points of concentration for Jews in eastern Belorussia, divided as follows: 41 in...
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Zusammenfassung: | The entirety of the eastern Belorussia region lay within the Belorussian SSR in 1938. After June 1941 and until the spring of 1942, the German military authorities and the Einsatzgruppen established some 101 ghettos or points of concentration for Jews in eastern Belorussia, divided as follows: 41 in the Vitebsk oblast’, containing about 30,000 Jews; 31 in the Mogilev oblast’, holding some 38,000 Jews; 15 in what is now the Gomel’ oblast’, with approximately 13,000 Jewish residents; and 14 in the Minsk oblast’, with about 16,000 Jews. For some locations a lack of information has made it very difficult to |
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DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctt2050wk1.27 |