Village in Eastern Bellrussia located 7.5 miles east of Minsk; camp and site of mass murder of Jews. About 200,000 people were murdered in the Trostinets area. About 65,000 were killed in Maly Trostinets, including over 30,000 from the last major aktion in Minsk. Between July 28--31, 1942 and on October 21, 1943 the last Jews from Minsk were murdered and buried in Maly Trostinets and Bolshoi Trostinets. During 1942, Jews from Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Austria, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were brought by train to be killed in Maly Trostinets. Most of the...
Reports regarding the interrogation of witnesses regarding the murder of Jews in Trostinets and Blagovshchina during 1941-1943
Investigation reports of eye witnesses, regarding the establishment of a CD camp in Trostinets in 1942; murder of Jews from Minsk in a trench in Trostinets, and the burning of the corpses of the murdered persons in 1943; murder of Jews from Minsk in Blagovshchina, approximately nine kilometers from Minsk, on the Minsk-Mogilev road; establishment of a camp for Soviet POWs in a Sovkhoz named Krupskaya and the murder of Jews in a Sovkhoz named Krupskaya starting in 07/1941;...
File Number : JM/10646
Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation, Investigation Report
Memoirs of Girsh Kantor, regarding his experiences in the ghetto and in prison in Minsk, and in Trostinets camp
The outbreak of war; establishment of a ghetto in Minsk; life in the ghetto; gathering the men and their transfer to prison in Minsk; escape back to the ghetto; selections and "Aktionen" against the Jews; transfer to Trostinets; life in the camp; theft of property; cruelty against the Jews; mass murders in the forest in the Trostinets region.
Articles published in the "Frontovaya pravda" (The Truth of the Front) newspaper regarding Nazi crimes in Belorussia
Gestapo activity in Bialystok; the Maly Trostinets camp; Nazi crimes in the Bialystok region particularly, and Belorussia in general; in the newspaper there is a photograph of local residents who were hanged, taken by the Germans in Mogilev.
On July 28-31, 1942, those inmates of both the main Minsk Ghetto and the "special" ghetto for Jewish deportees from Central Europe who were deemed unfit for work (mostly women and children) were taken by truck to the Blagovshchina Forest near the village of Maly Trostenets, about 15 km southeast of Minsk, where they were shot by German security policemen, men of the Order Police, and local auxiliary policemen. Wehrmacht soldiers from the anti-aircraft battery stationed in Minsk took part in this massacre as guards, as did several hundred of the Third Reich's railway personnel. Some of the victims were taken to...