(The Stones cover the top of where the underground tunnel was from the Ghetto to Freedom)
The Navahrudak Ghetto in German-Occupied Poland (today Belarus) held 10,000 Jewish Men, Women and Children from July 4, 1941 until July 8, 1944.
The
first Action (Mass Murder) of the Jews there occurred on December 7, 1941 with
500 Men, Women and Children killed that day.
The
second Action of the Jews there occurred on May 7, 1943 with 300 Men, Women and
Children killed that day.
In
May 1943 the Jews in the Ghetto started to build an underground tunnel (200
yards long) from the Ghetto to the outside and on September 26, 1943, 253 Men,
Women and Children escaped the Ghetto through the tunnel.
100
of these People later joined the Bielski Brother Partisans in the forest.
10,000
Jewish Men, Women and Children were murdered by the Germans in the Navahrudak
Ghetto.
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