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Following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, Pinsk and the surrounding area was annexed to the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was the seat of the Pinsk Oblast from 1940. After Operation Barbarossa, Germany occupied Pinsk from 4 July 1941 to 14 July 1944, as part of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine.
Pinsk was annexed to the Reichskommissariat of Ukraine as soon as it was occupied, and the Gebietskommissar reached the city in early September 1941. It was the German practice in occupied Soviet territories to install a military administration and replace it with a civilian one, usually at the time the ghetto was established.
The Jews of Pinsk, 1881 to 1941. Author (s) Azriel Shohet. 2013. The Jews of Pinsk is the most detailed and comprehensive history of a single Jewish community in any language. This second portion of this study focuses on Pinsk's turbulent final sixty years, showing the reality of life in this important, and in many ways representative, Eastern ...
In 1897 the Jewish inhabitants of Pinsk numbered 21,065 and constituted 74.2% of the population. In 1914 the Jewish population was 72.5% (28,063 out of 38,686 persons). The increase in population was mainly from natural causes and not due to large immigration. As a result close internal relationships developed despite existing tensions between ...
On 4 July 1941, the Nazis occupied Pinsk. Within a few weeks they established a Judenrat and in the first week of August conducted aktions, murdering about 11,000 Jews by gunshot and burying them in mass pits. The Pinsk ghetto was established on 1 May 1942, and more than 3,600 of its some 10,000 inhabitants worked outside of the ghetto.
The Holocaust and the Destruction of the Jews of Pinsk (4.7.41-23.12.42) On the 4 th of July 1941, the Nazi-German army conquered Pinsk. It was the first large city in occupied territories whose Jewish population was to be completely annihilated.
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The atmosphere of approaching war that prevailed in Poland in the early summer months of 1939 was palpable in Pinsk. The Jews had no idea of what the Nazis were to do to them; still there was fear in Pinsk, not only of the horrors of war, but of the certainty that, should war break out, Poland was no match for Hitler's forces. 1 Close With no way to escape, life's routines continued although ...
