Białystok Ghetto
Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Białystok Ghetto (Polish: getto w Białymstoku) was a Nazi ghetto set up by the German SS between July 26 and early August 1941 in the newly formed District of Bialystok within occupied Poland.[1] About 50,000 Jews from the vicinity of Białystok and the surrounding region were confined into a small area of the city, which was turned into the district's capital. The ghetto was split in two by the Biała River running through it (see map). Most inmates were put to work in the slave-labor enterprises for the German war effort, primarily in large textile, shoe and chemical companies operating inside and outside its boundaries. The ghetto was liquidated in November 1943.[2] Its inhabitants were transported in Holocaust trains to the Majdanek concentration camp and Treblinka extermination camps. Only a few hundred survived the war, either by hiding in the Polish sector of the city, escape following the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising, or by surviving the camps.
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Location | Białystok, German-occupied Poland 53°08′17″N 23°09′33″E |
Date | July 26, 1941 – September 15, 1943 |
Incident type | Imprisonment, mass shooting, forced labor, starvation, deportations to death camps |
Perpetrators | SS, Order Police Battalions, Trawnikis |