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Resistance in Minsk. In August 1941, Jews established an anti-German underground in the Minsk ghetto. Members organized escapes from the ghetto and formed partisan units in the forests to the southeast and northwest of Minsk. Jews from Minsk established seven different partisan units.
Nazi German rule in Belarus began in the summer of 1941 during Operation Barbarossa (the invasion of the Soviet Union). Minsk was bombed and taken over by the Wehrmacht on 28 June 1941. In Hitler's view, Operation Barbarossa was a war against "Jewish Bolshevism", a Nazi conspiracy theory.
The Soviet census of 1926 showed 53,700 Jews living in Minsk (constituting close to 41% of the city's inhabitants). The ghetto was created on 28 June 1941, soon after the German invasion of the Soviet Union and capture of the city of Minsk, capital of the Byelorussian SSR.
In late July 1941, the Germans established a ghetto where 100,000 Jews, including Jews from nearby towns, were incarcerated. Murder operations took place throughout the ghetto's existence. Jews were shot or gassed in special gas vans in Maly Trostinets, a small village about eight miles outside Minsk.
Dr. Daniel Romanovsky: In both these aktions, the Nazis cleared out a certain part of the ghetto, and the part that they evacuated was used as space for a German ghetto, or as it was called in the Minsk Ghetto, the “Hamburg Ghetto.”. In that month, November 1941, they brought German Jews to Minsk.
The Pit (Belarusian: Яма, romanized: Yama) is a monument dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust on the corner of Melnikayte and Zaslavskaya streets in Minsk, Belarus. The memorial is located at the site where on 2 March 1942 Nazi forces shot about 5,000 Jewish residents of the nearby Minsk Ghetto .
August 15, 1941. Soviet Prisoners of War in Minsk. Heinrich Himmler, the Chief of the German Police and Reich Leader of the SS, inspects Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) at a German camp in Minsk, Belarus. The Nazi-German state depicted the war against the Soviet Union as a racial war between German "Aryans" and subhuman Slavs and Jews.
