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administrators declared that the poor conditions in the ghetto created a health hazard for local inhabitants and that an epidemic had started in the ghetto; in fact, this declaration was a pretext to move and massacre the Jews. Less than three months later, on 8 October 1941, the Nazis started a
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2010 p.223 "Thus, to name only the most significant places, the Vitebsk ghetto was cleared between 8 and 10 October and 4090 Jews were shot (according to reports by Einsatzkommando 9)" - but another source puts this 4,090 at December
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2003 p.122 "Grune and her two remaining children were interned in the Vitebsk ghetto together with 16,000 other Jews. The ghetto was established in the area of the Vitebsk railway station and surrounded by wire fences.
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massacre of the Vitebsk Jews, which ended on 11 October with the deaths of most of the ghetto's inhabitants (sources vary as to the exact number). Many bodies were disposed in the nearby
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A Wedding in Darkness: One Life in the Twilight of Russian Jewish History
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October 8: Vitebsk Ghetto liquidated; more than 16,000 Jews killed
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Approximately 16,000 Jews lived in the ghetto. In October, the
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Borderland Generation: Soviet and Polish Jews under Hitler
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Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews
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Vitebsk ghetto

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VITEBSK AND THE HOLOCAUST
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JewishGen
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