The charred remains of prisoners burned by the Germans before the liberation of the Maly Trostinets concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 71950

Overview

Caption: The charred remains of prisoners burned by the Germans before the liberation of the Maly Trostinets concentration camp.
Date: Circa 1944
Locale: Maly Trostinets, [Minsk] USSR
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Belarusian State Archive of Documentary Film and Photography
Event History: Maly Trostinets was the site of a concentration camp where Jews from the final actions in Minsk were murdered between July 28 and July 31, 1942. In 1942 Jews from Bohemia, Moravia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland were transported there to be killed. Most of the victims were lined up in front of pits and shot to death. In the fall of 1943 the Germans began to hide the traces of the mass murder by cremating the bodies and on June 30, 1944 they burned the camp to the ground.

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Photo Source: Belarusian State Archive of Documentary Film and Photography

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 0-120371