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Maly Trostenets
Closed 1944Low
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Background
Maly Trostenets (Maly Trascianiec, Belarusian: ÐÐ°Ð»Ñ Ð¢ÑаÑÑÑнеÑ, "Little Trostenets") is a village near Minsk in Belarus, formerly the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. During Nazi Germany's occupation of the area during World War II (when the Germans referred to it as Reichskommissariat Ostland), the village became the location of a Nazi extermination site. Throughout 1942, Jews from Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were taken by train to Maly Trostenets to be lined up in front of the pits and were shot. From the summer of 1942, mobile gas vans were also used. According to Yad Vashem, the Jews of Minsk were murdered and buried in Maly Trostenets and in another village, Bolshoi Trostinets, between 28 and 31 July 1942 and on 21 October 1943.
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Year opened
1942
Closed 1944
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Facility profile
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Population held
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Opened
1942
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Known issues
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Notable inmates
- Ernestine Kirchner1878–1942
- Lilli Einöhrl1914–1942
- Richard Wildner1876–1942
- Elsa Stern1883–1942
- Ottilie Saxl1883–1942 · paleontologist
- Friedrich Mautner1881–1942
JaÅhien KlumaÅ1878–1944 · gynecologist- Ernst Thieberger1903–1942
- Ida Kutscher1886–1942
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Sources
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q316109)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Maly Trostenets. Retrieved July 24, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/maly-trostenets
Chicago
"Maly Trostenets." World Prisons. Accessed July 24, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/maly-trostenets.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-maly-trostenets,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Maly Trostenets},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/maly-trostenets},
urldate = {2026-07-24}
}