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 : Official Documentation, Investigation Report, Survey 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.
Transport AAx left Theresienstadt on July 14, 1942 for Minsk in Belarus with 1,000 Jews on board. It was the first deportation to leave the ghetto for this destination after a moratorium that had lasted several months. Unlike the previous transports which had been bound for the Minsk ghetto, from now on the Jews were taken directly to the village of Maly Trostenets, 15 kilometers southeast of Minsk. A Soviet kolkhoz (collective settlement) was located near this village, where SS forces carried out the mass murders of Jews. In all, 65,000 Jews were murdered in Maly Trostenets and 200,000 met the same fate...
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.