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how i lived in the ghetto, i don't understand at all how i got out. it only takes a wild imagination to imagine how i got out there. i remember a lot somewhere, i think that i had instructions to tell for a long time. about everything that i saw, what i hear and what i experienced. it is really difficult to understand how people could be in the ghetto in inhuman conditions, how they could survive and
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how to survive the horror of pogroms, executions, hunger , cold, is really difficult. documentation testimonies of former prisoners materials of the general prosecutor's office of the republic say that it was beyond the limits of human understanding. from the first days of the beginning of the war in the occupied territories, simultaneously with concentration camps, prisons were created and the ghetto became the largest, the warsaw ghetto, but not a single ghetto in europe could compare with the minsk one in its cruelty and mass extermination of civilians. over the course of two or three
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months, they shot everything for more than 4 months, and that's it. it's been two years and four months. special order of the occupation authorities in july 1941. from the order of the field commandant on the creation of a ghetto in the city of minsk on july 19, 1941, for the first time since the issuance of this order, a jewish district is created in minsk, where only jews will live, the second
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within five days from the date of publication of this order, the entire jewish population of the city of minsk is obliged to resettle in the area allotted to him for residence, there was an order to move all jews on the territory of the minsk gene, this was one and a half square kilometers of living space, minsk somewhere it was such wooden houses, well, private houses, everything means, which were mostly lived by jews, they were engaged in. 140,000 people, then in each room lived seven by 10 by 12 people. if you count, it turned out to be about one and a half square meters per person. according to the order
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of the field commandant , in fact, three camps of the border of the large ghetto were formed on the territory of minsk, starting from the collective farm lane along the line of the street of the same name and passing along the german main part of the prisoners, approximately 80,000 were kept right in this area. the small ghetto included the area of the radio plant named after molotov a. sonder. the ghetto was located in the area of shoe and dry streets. more than 20,000 jews deported from seven countries of western central and eastern europe were kept here . it was allowed to leave the jewish area only along two streets, and pansky and ostrovsky, it was guarded around the clock
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by the ss policemen, the lithuanian and belarusian nationalist formations disappeared. executions of civilians, prisoners of war in minsk began literally from the first days occupation in the arsenal of demonstrative executions of jews. minsk ghetto in the early morning of november 7, 1941, the inhabitants of vitebskaya street in minsk were awakened by shots, after which screams and cries of children were heard.
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but it was already too late from the back of the house the policemen were pushing the wife, the aunt of her husband's sons, out into the street. there were none among them, which means they managed to hide, it flashed into consciousness. wulf managed to grab his young daughter by the hand and rushed to run. behind the houses, they, along with the child, followed the column. automatic people pushes the car
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tells some other girl with her that i am your daughter. 16 she said to the girl, she was also released. nazi doctrine total extermination of the jewish population but how to deal with the liquidation of such a large number of people one of the effective means became louder. it began on july 28 and ended on july 31, 1942. victim numbers differ then, an estimated 25,000 people were killed in a four-day pogrom. mom
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knew malina and we ran there and there we sat for four days. everyone was lying, because the ceiling was low, everyone was lying, there were 60 people sitting at the stove for four days. there was a pula woman with a little girl. she was younger than me. she cried. we children keep breathing longer and how
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to pretend to be dead people used every opportunity. raspberries, so called in the ghetto , places where one could hide during the pogrom, saved many lives of the geth. in a small house with two apartments on republicanskaya street in minsk in november 1942 , the nazis were engaged in their usual occupation , shaking up the belongings of the residents they had killed, trying to find something of value. they
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called it fun. such rounds in the evenings in the ghetto were undertaken more than anything suitable for themselves. they literally broke into a neighbor's apartment. there was no one, although everything indicated that until recently there were people. they really were, hiding in the cramped space between the stove and the second wall, where one could just stand along the wall. they did everything not to betray themselves. not the slightest sound, not the slightest. then the inhabitants of the house were lucky not
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the minsk ghetto lasted from july 20 , 1941 to october 21, 1943, it became one of the largest in europe . at least 100,000 jews passed through it, about 90,000 out of 25,000 people deported to the ghetto from europe, only fifty prisoners managed to escape. in total , from 600 to 800,000 people were destroyed in the ghettos created throughout the territory of the republic during the war.
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