Haradok

Haradok is a metropolis in Vitebsk Province in Belarus with the population of 34,seven hundred people. Approximately 14,000 humans reside inside the city itself round 30,000 humans are living inside the district. Haradok district is one of the biggest within the country. The metropolis is positioned on the north-east of Belarus and occupies around three,000 square kilometers. It is located 30 kilometers faraway from Vitebsk, the main city of one of the six provinces in the Republic of Belarus. In 1939, 1,584 Jews lived in the town, making up 21.7% of the populace. The town was below German profession from 1941 to 1944. In the primary 1/2 of August 1941, among a hundred and twenty and two hundred Jews had been shot through the Germans near the village of Berezovka.

Shortly after this taking pictures, the Germans installed a ghetto. The ghetto turned into situated in a neighborhood within the center of metropolis. It changed into fenced on three sides with barbed twine, and the river fashioned its boundary on the fourth facet. Men had been sometimes required to carry out pressured labor. On October 14, 1941, the Gorodok ghetto changed into liquidated. Nearly 400 Jews were shot inside the forest in the Vorobevy Hills. They had been killed in pits that have been dug in advance. Moreover, between August and October 1941, there were several small-scale shootings of Jews.