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    Pinsk (Belarusian: Пінск; Russian: Пинск, IPA: [pʲinsk]; Polish: Pińsk; Ukrainian: Пінськ; Yiddish: פינסק) is a city in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves...
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    approximately 1,000 Jews escaped from the Łachwa Ghetto, of whom about 600 were able to take refuge in the Pinsk Marshes. Known as Pripjet-Sümpfe by the Germans...
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    Ghetto, occupied Poland, holding 18,000 Jews, modern Brest, Belarus Łachwa Ghetto, occupied Poland, holding 2,350 Jews, modern Lakhva, Belarus Pińsk Ghetto...
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    invaded Poland in September 1939, occupation authorities began to establish ghettos to segregate Jews. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941...
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    The Dzyatlava Ghetto, Zdzięcioł Ghetto, or Zhetel Ghetto (in Yiddish) was a Nazi ghetto in the town of Dzyatlava, Western Belarus during World War II...
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  • No. 570. Subject matter of the proceedings: mass shooting of thousands of Jews in the Pripet area, including at least 4,500 Jews from the Pinsk ghetto...
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  • the Łachwa Ghetto. Between 29 October and 1 November 1942, the battalion participated in the liquidation of the Pinsk Ghetto (now in Pinsk, Belarus)....
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    suppressed in the Pińsk Ghetto; over 26,000 men, women and children were shot with the aid of Belarusian Auxiliary Police before the ghetto's closure. During...
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    The Pinsk massacre was the mass execution of thirty-five Jewish residents of Pinsk on April 5, 1919, by the Polish Army. The Polish commander "sought to...
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    resistance, particularly when the ghettos were liquidated. Examples included Warsaw, Częstochowa, Radomsko, Pajęczno, Sasów, Pińsk, Mołczadź, Iwaniska, Wilno...
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