Малы Трасьцянец (Maly Trostinez vernichtungslager),
| Street | Малы Трасьцянец |
| Latitude | 53°51′04″N |
| Longitude | 27°42′17″E |
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Camps in Reichskommissariat Ostland
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Vernichtungslager Maly Trostinez
Maly Trostenets extermination camp
Maly Trascianiec extermination camp
Малы Трасьцянец
Малый Тростене
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At the end of July 1942, 18,000 Jews from Minsk were murdered, using four gas vans, operating 24 hours a day, and other trucks transported victims to Maly Trostinec for shooting.
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On June 28, 1944, as the advancing Red Army approached Maly Trostinec, Russian airplanes attacked Maly Trostinec.
The camp guards (Latvian, Ukrainian, White Russian, Hungarian and Rumanian SS auxiliaries) were replaced by a special SS detachment (Germans), who locked the surviving prisoners, mainly Russian civilians and Jews from Minsk, in the barracks, which were set on fire.
The SS shot at all those who fled the blazing buildings.
About 20 Jews evaded the fire and the bullets, and hid in the nearby forest until the arrival of the Red Army six days later.
The few survivors of Maly Trostinec were taken to Moscow, and kept in a Siberian camp, before being released in 1946.