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On this day 82 years ago, the Axis massacred thousands of Jews in its liquidation of the Słonim Ghetto
On this day 82 years ago, the Axis massacred thousands of Jews in its liquidation of the Słonim Ghetto
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Alisa (Lisa) Nussbaum Derman describes her escape from Slonim during a roundup in 1941
In Belarus, Axis troops, together with 18th Latvian Police Battalion as well as Ukrainian and Estonian auxiliaries, decided to liquidate the Słonim Ghetto, resulting in the massacre of at least four thousand people in a single day, though the actual number might have been as high as ten thousand.
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Evidently, it seems that the Axis reused this ghetto as my sources indicate that the Axis liquidated it more than once.
Interview with another survivor.