According to official data, more than 200 thousand people were killed in Trostenets, the largest death camp in Belarus. By the number of victims it is not inferior to Auschwitz, Majdanek and Treblinka. The concentration camp was built in the surroundings of Trostenets. Prisoners were not only villagers, partisans and underground fighters. Jews from Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany were brought here under the guise of resettlement. "Trostenets" embraces a number of places of mass destruction: Shashkovka is a place of burning prisoners, Blagovschina is a place of executions and the camp itself.
Alexander Lukashenko to lay wreath at monument "Gates of Memory"
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