A unique case of Jewish resistance and an unprecedented escape. The history of the Novogrudok Jews - in the new project of the regional prosecutor's office and the "GP" "Crime Scene"

Hitler's policy of "final solution of the Jewish question" brought fear, pain and death to the Novogrudok land. During the Great Patriotic War in 1941-1943, fascist non-humans and their accomplices destroyed more than six thousand Novogrudok Jews. But in this macabre story, there was a unique case of Jewish resistance and an unprecedented flight about which books have been written and films have been made.

Andrei SKURAT, deputy prosecutor of the Grodno region:

– The new order during the Great Patriotic War was planted on the territory of Belarus through genocide and mass terror. In the occupied territory of the Grodno region, the Nazis created 55 places of forced detention of the civilian population: 40 ghettos, 7 prisons, 7 camps for prisoners of war and the civilian population, and one collection point (during the additional investigation, another 31 such places were found). At least 105 thousand people were killed in captivity and more than 26 thousand were taken to Germany and death camps outside of Belarus. The Nazis and their accomplices committed mass murder of the Jewish population and Jews deported from Western Europe.

 The new joint project of the prosecutor's office of the Grodno region and Grodnenskaya Pravda newspaper is about this. About the difficult fate of people who were marked on a national basis, about the extermination of the peaceful Soviet people during the years of war hard times and experienced universal grief, the miracles of survival and the height of the spirit of the survivors. We will talk about the crime scenes of the Nazis: ghettos, camps and other places of detention, in which local residents found themselves only because they had a different hair or eye color, spoke a different