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Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War

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Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
Phone:
+375 17 327-11-66

Hours:
Sunday10am - 6pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 6pm
Wednesday10am - 6pm
Thursday10am - 6pm
Friday10am - 6pm
Saturday10am - 6pm


The Holocaust in Belarus in general terms refers to the Nazi crimes committed during World War II on the territory of Belarus against Jews. The borders of Belarus however, changed dramatically following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, which has been the source of confusion especially in the Soviet era as far as the scope of the Holocaust in Belarus is concerned.When World War II began, with the September 1, 1939 attack on Poland by Nazi Germany, the sovereign Belarus of today did not exist. The Nazi-Soviet Pact signed in secrecy led to the parallel Soviet invasion of Poland from the east on September 17, 1939. The eastern half of prewar Poland was annexed by the USSR to the two republics of Soviet Belarus and Soviet Ukraine.The entire territory of modern-day Belarus was occupied by Nazi Germany by the end of August 1941. American historian Lucy Dawidowicz, author of The War Against the Jews estimated that 66% of the Jewish people residing in Belarusian SSR died in the Holocaust, out of 375,000 Jews in Belarus prior to World War II according to Soviet data. By comparison, in the Baltics about 90% of Jews were killed in the same period.
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