Brześć Ghetto
Nazi ghetto in occupied Belarus / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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: בריסק or בריסק-ד׳ליטע) was a Nazi ghetto created in occupied Western Belarus in December 1941, six months after the German troops had invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941.[1] Less than a year after the creation of the ghetto, around October 15–18, 1942, most of approximately 20,000 Jewish inhabitants of Brest (Brześć) were murdered; over 5,000 were executed locally at the Brest Fortress on the orders of Karl Eberhard Schöngarth;[2] the rest in the secluded forest of the Bronna Góra extermination site (the Bronna Mount, Belarusian: Бронная гара), sent there aboard Holocaust trains under the guise of 'resettlement'.[3]
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Also known as | Brześć Litewski Ghetto |
Location | Brześć, German-occupied Poland |
Date | December 16, 1941 to October 15, 1942 |
Incident type | Imprisonment, starvation, mass shootings |
Organizations | Nazi SS |
Victims | 18,000 Polish Jews |