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  1. 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.

  2. Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Belarus
  3. World War II sites in Belarus

Banstead

Banstead is a town in the borough of Reigate and Banstead in Surrey, England.

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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.

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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.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Zvyazda

Zvyazda (Звязда) is a state-owned daily newspaper in Belarus.

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See also

Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Belarus

World War II sites in Belarus

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Ghetto