Zagłada Żydów w Zaostrowieczu (na Nowogródczyźnie)
The Holocaust in Zaostrowiecze, Nowogródek Region

Summary/Abstract: The annihilation of Jews in the territory of the Republic of Poland during World War II was an operation pursued by Nazi Germany on a grand scale. The facts and the history of the extermination of Jews in large towns are fairly well known but there are still small towns and villages in which the Jews accounted for the majority of the inhabitants before the War but little is known about the subsequent fate of these people. This applies in particular to the areas lost by Poland in the East as a result of World War II. The village of Zaostrowiecze, then located in Nieśwież district of Nowogródek voivodship, falls into that category. Access to source data is complicated by the fact that after WWII this locality has found itself in what is now Belarus, and the political situation in that country makes it hard to conduct in-depth studies in the local archives.

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