| Horodno Ghetto | |
| Date: | summer 1941 — July 1942 |
| Location: | Stolin district |
The Horodno Ghetto (also known as the Gorodnaya Ghetto) was established in the summer of 1941 and existed until July 1942. It was a Jewish ghetto located in the village of Gorodnaya, within the Stolin district of the Brest region, Belarus. This ghetto was a place of forced resettlement for Jews from Gorodnaya and nearby settlements during the Nazi occupation of Belarus in World War II.
In June 1941, following the capture of Gorodnaya by Nazi forces, a census of the Jewish population was conducted.[1] Jews were mandated to wear patches in the form of six-pointed stars on both the front and back of their clothing. The Nazis prioritized the elimination of potential Jewish resistance, leading to the immediate execution of Jewish men aged 15 to 50.[2] Following the census, 53 Jewish men over the age of 14 were shot by the police near the Jewish cemetery outside the village.[3]
In August 1941, the Germans established the ghetto in Gorodnaya as part of Hitler's program for the extermination of Jews.[4] [5] [6]
| From the report of the Stolin partisan detachment to the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belarus on October 5, 1941[7] : "Exceptional inhuman atrocities are being committed by German gangs against the Jewish population, namely: In the town of Stolin, the gang killed 80 people, in the village of Gorodnaya in the Stolin district — 50 people… The remaining Jewish population in the villages and towns is mobilized by the German gang for the hardest and dirtiest work, with work hours set at 14 hours without food…" |
In the 1960s, a memorial sign was erected at the site of the shooting and mass grave by surviving Jews and descendants of the victims. In 2012, another monument dedicated to the victims of the Jewish genocide was erected next to the first one, funded by Iosif Liberman, the chairman of the Pinsk Jewish community, whose relatives were among those killed in the Gorodnaya ghetto.[8]