During August of 1941, almost all of the Jews from the little towns
The Yudenrat institutions, aware of what was going on, talked the young people
fred vogels | music-film-stories-webmaster. murders. I didnât think much about it because I could hardly express any thoughts about it â I only saw it and that was quite enough â they were shooting into the pit and I saw a woman, her arms seemed to be at the back, and then my knees went weak and I went away.â. The Nazi armies conquered Pinsk on July 4, 1941. Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, Introduction to the Ghettos of the Holocaust, Other Camps - Holocaust Economics - The German Occupation - Survivors Stories - Trials - Image Gallery - Appendix A-Z. to murder all of Pinsks Jews.
According to May 1942 data, there were 18,644 people in the Pinsk ghetto. A curfew was in force from 2200 to 0500 hours. (364 of which were women that worked in Christian households). The Judenrat had seven departments: The first duty of the Minsk Judenrat was to register the entire Jewish population â this was completed by 15 July 1941. that a few hundred men that were supposed "go to work" in August of
The ghetto, encompassed some 240 houses on 23 streets, all enclosed by a barbed wire fence 2,345 meters long. workers in each of them. Thousands of the ghetto inhabitants lived among the ruins of destroyed or gutted houses without floors or windows. It was the second largest mass shooting operation in a single settlement to that particular date during the Holocaust, after Babi Yar where the death toll exceeded 33,000 Jews. The liquidation of Pinsk Ghetto began in August 1941, with a murder of 11,000 males. The order was a trap. Source: Records from Ukraine, Belarus, and Switzerland. The Pinsk Jewish community was established in 1506, when the prince in that area, Feodor Yaroslavski, granted residency privileges and congregational status in the city to some was not found.
The Pinsk Ghetto Database is searchable via either the
their time and technical expertise which made this database possible. Werthof, he notified them that in order to fulfill Himmlers order, he would need
"Pinsk is a Ghetto working for the war effort and it will continue to
[12], A Judenrat (Jewish Council) was formed on 30 July 1941. Christian inhabitants welcomed the German army as liberators from the Soviet regime, greeting them with bread and flowers. "(6)
Prior to WWI, Pinsk was in Minsk gubernia (Minsk province) of the
in Jerusalem, working on file of Brest (Brisk), the district town of Polesia in Belarussia
No houses were damaged in the process.
years ago. Between the wars, Pinsk was in Poleskie województwa
of June, 1986, Booklet 41, page 54, 55. Archives, Giv'at Khaviva c9.4. After the German occupation,
commander.
In the meantime, it was decided that on the morning of August 5, 1941,
Jewish Community of Pinsk. This camp also came to be used as a transit camp for those destined for liquidation. I flew to Minsk by helicopter, correction, in a Fiesler Storch belonging to the Einsatzgruppe.