Eastern Europe
Belarus
Minsk Region

Memorial to prisoners of the Sluck ghetto

The Slutsk affair was a mass killing that occurred near , Byelorussian SSR in the Soviet Union from 27 to 28 October 1941. Members of the Gestapo and the Lithuanian Auxiliary Police launched an operation to liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Slutsk without proper authorisation.
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  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: Nazi ghetto in occupied Belarus
  • Also known as: “Slutsk Affair”, “Slutsk Ghetto”, and “Slutsk massacre”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sluck Museum of Local Lore and The building of the former noble assembly.

Museum
Photo: WoukM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is situated 580 metres southwest of Memorial to prisoners of the Sluck ghetto.

Photo: WoukM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is situated 590 metres southwest of Memorial to prisoners of the Sluck ghetto.

Archaeological site
Photo: Napoleon Orda, Public domain.
is an archaeological site, which is situated 640 metres southeast of Memorial to prisoners of the Sluck ghetto.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Slutsk and Lučnіkі.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a city in Minsk Oblast, . Ornamental silk sashes woven in were once famous throughout the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and today the town has a museum dedicated to them.

Village
Photo: Vit Korotky, CC BY 3.0.
is a village, which is situated 2½ km northwest of Memorial to prisoners of the Sluck ghetto.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 4½ km north of Memorial to prisoners of the Sluck ghetto.

Memorial to prisoners of the Sluck ghetto

Latitude
53.02852° or 53° 1′ 43″ north
Longitude
27.55054° or 27° 33′ 2″ east
Inception
September 16th, 2007
Open location code
9G592HH2+C6
Open­Street­Map ID
way 39234434
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Wiki­data ID
Q2576564
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Memorial to prisoners of the Sluck ghetto” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حي اليهود سلوتسك”
  • Armenian: “Սլուցկի գետտո”
  • Belarusian: “Мемарыял вязням Слуцкага гета”
  • Belarusian: “Слуцкае гета”
  • Bulgarian: “Слуцк (Гето)”
  • Catalan: “Gueto de Slutsk”
  • Croatian: “Sluck (Geto)”
  • Czech: “Slucké ghetto”
  • Czech: “Slucký pogrom”
  • Dutch: “Ghetto van Sloetsk”
  • Esperanto: “Sluck Geto”
  • French: “Ghetto de Sloutsk”
  • German: “Ghetto Sluzk”
  • Greek: “Υπόθεση Σλουτσκ”
  • Hebrew: “גטו סלוצק”
  • Hebrew: “טבח סלוצק”
  • Italian: “Ghetto di Sluck”
  • Italian: “Massacro di Sluck”
  • Polish: “Getto w Słucku”
  • Portuguese: “Gueto de Slutsk”
  • Romanian: “Ghetoul Sluțk”
  • Russian: “Гетто в Слуцке”
  • Russian: “Мемориал узникам Слуцкого гетто”
  • Russian: “Слуцкое гетто”
  • Serbian: “Слуцк (Гето)”
  • Spanish: “Ghetto de Slutsk”
  • Spanish: “Gueto de Slutsk”
  • Turkish: “Slutsk Gettosu”
  • Ukrainian: “Слуцьк (Гетто)”
  • Yiddish: “סלוצק געטא”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Цэнтральная раённая бібліятэка and Sluck Region Executive Committee.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Memorial to prisoners of the Sluck ghetto”. Photo: Avner, CC BY-SA 3.0.