Maly Trostenets concentration camp

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Maly Trostenets (Belarusian: Малы Трасцянец, romanized: Maly Traścianiec, lit. 'Little Trostenets'; Russian: Малый Тростенец, romanized: Maly Trostenets) was an extermination site and forced-labour camp operated by Nazi Germany in Belarus during World War II. It was built near the village of Maly Trostenets, twelve kilometres southeast of Minsk in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. The location comprised two sites: a Nazi forced labour camp, and a nearby site in the Blagovshchina Forest intended for no other purpose than mass murder of Jews and other victims. Another site at the Shashkovka Forest replaced Blagovshchina from late 1943 to June 1944 to murder local non-Jewish civilians and partisans. From May 1942, as part of the so-called Final Solution, Jews from Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were transported by train to Maly Trostenets, where they were taken shortly afterwards to the Blagovshchina Forest and shot. From the...

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