Brześć Ghetto
| Brześć Ghetto | |
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Preserved house with a commemorative plaque at the former ul. Długa street of Brześć ghetto | |
Brześć location north of Sobibor in World War II | |
| Also known as | Brześć Litewski Ghetto |
| Location | Brześć, German-occupied Poland |
| Date | December 16, 1941 to October 15, 1942 |
| Incident type | Imprisonment, starvation, mass shootings |
| Organizations | Nazi SS |
| Victims | 18,000 Polish Jews |
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The Brześć Ghetto or the Ghetto in Brest on the Bug, also: Brześć nad Bugiem Ghetto, and Brest-Litovsk Ghetto (Polish: getto w Brześciu nad Bugiem, Yiddish: בריסק or בריסק-ד׳ליטע) was a Nazi ghetto created in German occupied Poland (Western Belarus) in December 1941, six months after the German troops had invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. Less than a year after the creation of the ghetto, around October 15–18, 1942, most of approximately 20,000 Jewish inhabitants of Brest (Brześć) were murdered; over 5,000 were executed locally at the Brest Fortress on the orders of Karl Eberhard Schöngarth; the rest in the secluded forest of the Bronna Góra extermination site (the Bronna Mount, Belarusian: Бронная гара), sent there aboard Holocaust trains under the guise of 'resettlement'.