Today, Belarus commemorates a tragic date. On this day, exactly 79 years ago, the Nazis shot the last prisoners of the Minsk ghetto. In total, more than a hundred thousand Jewish people were killed in the death camp. Hitler's program to isolate and eliminate Jews lasted continuously for 28 months out of 48 months of the war. From 1941 to 1943, the space that is today called Rakovsky Suburb was surrounded by barbed wire and no one had a chance to survive. Prisoners in the area were shot for any disobedience, starved to death, suffocated in gas chambers. The remains of the victims of the Minsk ghetto lie today under the memorial complexes of Trostenets and Blagovschina. By some miracle, 2 % survived. Fortunately, some prisoners of the Minsk Ghetto are still alive today.
This Sunday, on October 23, a requiem meeting in memory of the Holocaust victims will be held at the memorial complex "Pit". Recall that "Pit", at the intersection of Melnikaite and Zaslavskaya streets, was the place of mass extermination of 5,000 Jews.












