Mir Ghetto, the Glossary
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36 relations: Banstead, Belarusian Auxiliary Police, Belarusian resistance during World War II, Bielski partisans, Dementia, Einsatzgruppen, Forced labour, Imprisonment, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany, Jewish National Fund, Lithuanian Auxiliary Police, Mass shooting, Mir Castle Complex, Mir Yeshiva (Belarus), Mir, Belarus, Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery, Nazi Germany, Operation Barbarossa, Oswald Rufeisen, Reichskommissariat Ostland, Second Polish Republic, Shtetl, Soviet invasion of Poland, Star Tribune, The Holocaust, The Independent, The Irish Times, United Kingdom, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, War Crimes Act 1991, Wehrmacht, World War II, Yad Vashem, Zvyazda.
- Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Belarus
- World War II sites in Belarus
Banstead
Banstead is a town in the borough of Reigate and Banstead in Surrey, England.
Belarusian Auxiliary Police
The Belarusian Auxiliary Police (Biełaruskaja dapamožnaja palicyja) was a German force established in July 1941 in occupied Belarus, staffed by local inhabitants, and considered collaborationist.
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Belarusian resistance during World War II
The Belarusian resistance during World War II opposed Nazi Germany from 1941 until 1944. Belarus was one of the Soviet republics occupied during Operation Barbarossa. The term Belarusian partisans may refer to Soviet-formed irregular military groups fighting Germany, but has also been used to refer to the disparate independent groups who also fought as guerrillas at the time, including Jewish groups (such as the Bielski partisans and Fareynikte Partizaner Organisatsye), Polish groups (such as the Home Army), and nationalist Belarusian forces opposed to Germany.
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Bielski partisans
The Bielski partisans were a unit of Jewish partisans who rescued Jews from extermination and fought the German occupiers and their collaborators around Novogrudok and Lida in German-occupied Poland (now western Belarus).
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Dementia
Dementia is a syndrome associated with many neurodegenerative diseases, characterized by a general decline in cognitive abilities that affects a person's ability to perform everyday activities.
Einsatzgruppen
Einsatzgruppen (also 'task forces') were Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe.
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Forced labour
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, or violence, including death or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families.
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Imprisonment
Imprisonment or incarceration is the restraint of a person's liberty against their will.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany
Beginning with the invasion of Poland during World War II, the Nazi regime set up ghettos across German-occupied Eastern Europe in order to segregate and confine Jews, and sometimes Romani people, into small sections of towns and cities furthering their exploitation.
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Jewish National Fund
The Jewish National Fund (JNF; קֶרֶן קַיֶּימֶת לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, Keren Kayemet LeYisrael; previously, Ha Fund HaLeumi) is a non-profit organizationProfessor Alon Tal, The Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, The Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
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Lithuanian Auxiliary Police
The Lithuanian Auxiliary Police was a Schutzmannschaft formation formed during the German occupation of Lithuania between 1941 and 1944, with the first battalions originating from the most reliable freedom fighters, disbanded following the 1941 anti-Soviet Lithuanian June Uprising in 1941.
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Mass shooting
A mass shooting is a violent crime in which one or more attackers kill or injure multiple individuals simultaneously using a firearm.
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Mir Castle Complex
The Mir Castle Complex (Mirski zamak; Мирский замок; Zamek w Mirze; Myriaus pilies kompleksas) is a historic fortified castle and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Belarus.
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Mir Yeshiva (Belarus)
The Mir Yeshiva (ישיבת מיר, Yeshivat Mir), commonly known as the Mirrer Yeshiva (מירער ישיבה) or The Mir, was a Lithuanian yeshiva located in the town of Mir, Russian Empire (now Belarus).
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Mir, Belarus
Mir (Мір; Мир; מיר) is an urban-type settlement in Karelichy District, Grodno Region, Belarus. Mir Ghetto and Mir, Belarus are Holocaust locations in Belarus.
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Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery
Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery (בית העלמין נחלת יצחק) is a Jewish municipal burial ground in the Tel Aviv District city of Givatayim, Israel, east of the Nahalat Yitzhak neighborhood of Tel Aviv.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.
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Oswald Rufeisen
Oswald Rufeisen (1922–1998), religious name Daniel Maria, was a Polish-born Jew who survived the Nazi invasion of his homeland, in the course of which he converted to Christianity, becoming a Catholic and a friar of the Discalced Carmelites.
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Reichskommissariat Ostland
The Reichskommissariat Ostland (RKO) was established by Nazi Germany in 1941 during World War II.
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Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939.
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Shtetl
Shtetl or shtetel is a Yiddish term for the small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.
Soviet invasion of Poland
The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war.
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Star Tribune
The Star Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Irish Times
The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust.
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War Crimes Act 1991
The War Crimes Act 1991 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Wehrmacht
The Wehrmacht were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem (יָד וַשֵׁם) is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.
Zvyazda
Zvyazda (Звязда) is a state-owned daily newspaper in Belarus.
See also
Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Belarus
- Antonovka Ghetto
- Baran Ghetto
- Baranavichy Ghetto
- Brześć Ghetto
- Byten Ghetto
- Damachava Ghetto
- Drahichyn Ghetto
- Dzyatlava Ghetto
- Gorodishche Ghetto
- Grodno Ghetto
- Hantsavichy Ghetto
- Ivatsevichy Ghetto
- Kamyenyets Ghetto
- Lida Ghetto
- Minsk Ghetto
- Mir Ghetto
- Mogilev Ghetto
- Molchad Ghetto
- Motal Ghetto
- Navahrudak Ghetto
- Pińsk Ghetto
- Rakaŭ Ghetto
- Svislach Ghetto (Mogilev region)
- Słonim Ghetto
- Tsyelyakhany Ghetto
- Vawkavysk Ghetto
- Vitebsk Ghetto
- Vowchyn Ghetto
- Vysokaye Ghetto
- Zhabinka Ghetto
- Łachwa Ghetto
World War II sites in Belarus
- Bronna Góra
- Brześć Ghetto
- Defense of Brest Fortress
- Führerhauptquartier Olga
- Maly Trostenets
- Mir Ghetto
- Molotov Line
- Navahrudak Ghetto
- Pińsk Ghetto
- Rakaŭ Ghetto
- Stalin Line
- Vawkavysk Ghetto
- Vitebsk Ghetto