List of villages and towns depopulated of Jews during the Holocaust

Below is a partial list of selected villages and towns (shtetls) depopulated of Jews during the Holocaust. The liquidation actions were carried out mostly by the Nazi Einsatzgruppen and Order Police battalions as well as auxiliary police through mass killings. The German "pacification" units of the Einsatzkommando were paramilitary forces within the Schutzstaffel, under the high command of the Obergruppenführer. The Einsatzgruppen operated primarily in the years 1941–45.

The towns and villages are listed by country, as follows:

Belarus[edit]

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Hungary[edit]

The following Jewish communities in Hungary were either partially or completely destroyed during the Holocaust.^[1][2]

Latvia[edit]

Jewish communities in the following Latvian cities, towns and villages were destroyed during the Holocaust:^[3]

Lithuania[edit]

The following Jewish communities in Lithuania were destroyed during the Holocaust. Note that the list includes places in modern, post-1991 Lithuania, some of which were in German-occupied Poland during the war.^[4][5][6][7]

Poland[edit]

Romania[edit]

Russia[edit]

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• Lyubavichi

Slovenia[edit]

• Beltinci
• Lendava
• Murska Sobota

Ukraine[edit]

See also[edit]

• List of shtetls
• Shtetl
• Where Once We Walked

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Mokotoff, Gary; Amdur Sack, Sallyann (1991). Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust (1st ed.). Teaneck, N.J.: Avotaynu. ISBN 0-9626373-1-9. OCLC 23652677.
• Mokotoff, Gary; Amdur Sack, Sallyann (2002). Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust. Alexander Sharon (2nd, revised ed.). Bergenfield, N.J.: Avotaynu. ISBN 1-886223-15-7. OCLC 488653492.
• Yad Vashem (1965). Blackbook of localities whose Jewish population was exterminated by the Nazis. Jerusalem, Israel: Yad Vashem. OCLC 48650158.
• Margulis, Ted (2012). "Ukrainian Cities and Shtetls". Jewish Web Index. Archived from the original on 2014-03-03.
• Margulis, Ted (2012). "Romania, Bukovina and Moldova". Jewish Web Index.