A sign at the entrance to the Maly Trostinets concentration camp warns that trespassers will be shot without warning.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 71953

Date: Circa 1944
Locale: Maly Trostinets, [Minsk] USSR
Photo Designation: LABOR CAMPS/MINOR CAMPS -- USSR -- Maly Trostinets
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.

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005187.
Keyword: CONCENTRATION CAMPS
ENTRANCES
MALY TROSTINETS
SIGNS
SIGNS/BANNERS/POSTERS
Photo Source: Belarusian State Archive of Documentary Film and Photography

Copyright: Public Domain
Novosti Press Agency

Copyright: Exclusively with source

Source Record ID: 87-3114 (reproduction APN-87)
: Record last modified: 2012-06-29 00:00:00
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