This walking tour tells the history of the occupied Minsk and ghetto - one of the largest in Europe since World War II.

In Minsk ghetto Jews got from Belarus, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and other European countries.

The Minsk ghetto was the second largest in Europe with number of prisoners. There were three ghettos in Minsk: big ghetto, small ghetto and zonderghetto. Geographically it covers Ostrovsky street, Opanskogo str., Zaslavska str., Jubilee Square and other nearby streets.

Non-Jewish population of the area were evicted. The territory of the ghetto was fenced high network of barbed wire and guarded. These Nazis rounded up about 100 thousand people of Jewish nationality.To this day in Minsk preserved buildings and monuments that have witnessed the bloody atrocities of invaders.This is the building of administrative center of the ghetto (Judenrat), the building of Arbeitsamt,  headquarters organizational center of resistance; underground printing; underground shelter last ghetto (of which only 13 people survived ), tombstones in a Jewish cemetery, memorial plaques, and finally, the memorial "Pit" - the place where Jews were massively shot.

During the tour you will get knew with this people,this fates and events.

Additional part of the tour: The Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War visit (+ 1,5 h)