Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto
| Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto | |
|---|---|
Mińsk location south of Treblinka in World War II | |
| Also known as | Mińsk Ghetto |
| Location | Mińsk Mazowiecki, German-occupied Poland |
| Date | 25 Oct 1940 – 21 Aug 1942 |
| Incident type | Imprisonment, starvation, mass shooting |
| Organizations | Nazi SS |
| Victims | 7,000 Polish Jews |
| Survivors | 250 |
| Memorials | The Jewish cemetery in Mińsk |
The Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto or the Mińsk Ghetto (Polish: Getto w Mińsku Mazowieckim, Yiddish: נאוואמינסק, Novominsk) was a World War II ghetto set up by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland. Some 7,000 Polish Jews were imprisoned there from all neighbouring settlements for the purpose of persecution and exploitation. Two years later, beginning 21 August 1942 during the most deadly phase of the Holocaust in occupied Poland, they were rounded up – men, women and children – and deported to Treblinka extermination camp aboard Holocaust trains. In the process of Ghetto liquidation, some 1,300 Jews were summarily executed by the SS in the streets of Mińsk Mazowiecki.