Maly Trostenets
Sign in to saveAlso known as Maly Trostinets, Maly Trastsianiets, Trasciane, Maly Trostinez, Maly Trostinec, Maly Tras’tsyanyets, Malyy Trostenets, Trostinets extermination camp
Nazi extermination site near Minsk in Belarus
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Nazi concentration camp
- Country
- Reichskommissariat Ostland
- Located in
- Minsk
- Parent organization
- Schutzstaffel
- Location
- Minsk
- Image
- Trascianiec extermination camp 27.jpg
- Number of deaths
- 206500
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- category for people who died here
- Category:People who died in Maly Trostenets extermination camp
- Commons category
- Trascianiec extermination camp
- topic's main category
- Category:Maly Trostenets extermination camp
- heritage designation
- Cultural heritage of Belarus
- inception
- 1942-05-10
- catalog code
- camps/2030
- exact match
- data.niod.nl/WO2_Thesaurus/kampen/8580
- P8168
- Blue Mosque
- native label
- Vernichtungslager Maly Trostinez
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1944-00-00
- date of official opening
- 1941-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
"Field of Burial" where the ashes of murdered and cremated prisoners were scattered Maly Trostenets (Maly Trascianiec, Belarusian: Малы Трасцянец, "Little Trostenets") is a village near Minsk in Belarus, formerly the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. During Nazi Germany's occupation of the area during World War II (when the Germans referred to it as Reichskommissariat Ostland), the village became the location of a Nazi extermination site.
Throughout 1942, Jews from Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were taken by train to Maly Trostenets to be lined up in front of the pits and were shot. From the summer of 1942, mobile gas vans were also used. According to Yad Vashem, the Jews of Minsk were murdered and buried in Maly Trostenets and in another village, Bolshoi Trostinets, between 28 and 31 July 1942 and on 21 October 1943. As the Red Army approached the area in June 1944, the Germans murdered most of the prisoners and destroyed the camp.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maly Trostenets” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.