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List of villages and towns depopulated of Jews during the Holocaust

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See also: List of shtetls

Below is a partial list of the selected villages and towns (shtetls) depopulated of Jews during the Holocaust. The liquidation actions were carried out mostly by the Nazi Einsatzgruppen and Order Police battalions as well as auxiliary police through mass killings. The German "pacification" units of the Einsatzkommando were paramilitary forces within the Schutzstaffel, under the high command of the Obergruppenführer. The Einsatzgruppen operated primarily in the years 1941–45.

The towns and villages are listed by country, as follows:

• Belarus • Crimea • Estonia • Hungary • Latvia • Lithuania • Moldovia • Poland • Romania • Russia • Slovenia • Ukraine

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Belarus

Crimea

Hungary

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The following Jewish communities in Hungary were either partially or completely destroyed during the Holocaust.[1][2]

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Latvia

Jewish communities in the following Latvian cities, towns and villages were destroyed during the Holocaust:[3]

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Lithuania

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The following Jewish communities in Lithuania were destroyed during the Holocaust. Note that the list includes places in modern, post-1991 Lithuania, some of which were in German-occupied Poland during the war.[4][5][6][7]

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Poland

Further information: Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland
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Romania

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Russia

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Slovenia

Moldovia

Ukraine

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