Mir Ghetto

Mir Ghetto
Portion of the monument to the victims of the Mir Ghetto
LocationMir, Reichskommissariat Ostland
53°27′N 26°28′E / 53.450°N 26.467°E / 53.450; 26.467
DateSeptember 1941–13 August 1942
Incident typeImprisonment, mass shootings, forced labour
ParticipantsEinsatzgruppen
Wehrmacht
Belarusian Auxiliary Police
Lithuanian Auxiliary Police Battalions
Victimsapproximately 2,900

The Mir Ghetto was a Nazi ghetto in Mir, Belarus during World War II. It housed at least 3,000 Jews, of whom about 2,900 were exterminated as part of the Holocaust. The Mir Ghetto is famous outside of Belarus primarily for its 9 November 1941 massacre, in which 1,800 Jews were slaughtered by German forces and collaborators.