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Ghettos

Jewish Intelligentsia

Judenrat (jewish Council)

Judenrat of Ghetto Minsk

Murder of Intelligentsia

Air-Raids

Attempted Escape

Collaborators

Contribution

Escape From the Ghettos

"aktions" in the Ghettos

Deportation to the Ghettos

Diseases

Escape From Persecutions

Abuse

Forced Labor

Gebelev Mikhail

Jewish Police - Collaborators

Passports

Aliya

Children

Hunger

Deportation to camps

Jewish education

Evacuation

"She’erith Hapletah"

Partisans

Hiding place

Jewish children

Family relations

Assistance to Jews

Death Marches

Rehabilitation of life after the war

DP camps

Holocaust survivors

Typhus

Information regarding relatives and friends

Memoirs

Names

Names of partisans

Names of perpetrators

Names of rescuers

Official documentation

Poem/song

Record of murdered persons

Record of persecuted persons

Survey report

Testimony

Russian