Murder Story of Grodno Jews in Ghetto B in Grodno

The two ghettos, Ghetto A, the main one, in the central part of the town, and Ghetto B, in Grodno's Slobodka area, were definitely the main murder sites of the Grodno Jews. There were four operations to deport the Jews of Grodno (in November 1942 - deportation from the ghetto B to Auschwitz; in January 1943 - the so-called "Aktion of 10,000" - deportation from Ghetto A to the extermination camps of Treblinka and Auschwitz; in February 1943 - the "Aktion of 5,000" - to the same destinations; and in March 1943, when the last Jews of Grodno were deported to the ghetto of Białystok and the Grodno ghetto was liquidated. Each operation in the Grodno ghetto was accompanied by killing in the city. The Germans killed those Jews who tried to evade the deportation and whom they found in improvised shelters they had constructed inside the ghetto, as well as those who were too weak to walk to the collection point, and others. There was also random killing. During the "Aktion of 10,000" hundreds of Jews were killed on the streets of Ghetto A. Many Jews were also killed in February 1943 in Ghetto A during the "Aktion of 5,000."