Underground activity of prisoners of the Minsk ghetto

Bukina Daria Vyacheslavovna

The article reveals the history of the underground anti-fascist movement in the Jewish ghetto in Minsk (Belorussian SSR) in 1941-1944. The article is based on archival documents of the National Archive of the Republic of Belarus, including the memories of direct participants of the underground of the Minsk ghetto, both published in author's memoirs and collected by researchers in thematic collections; part of the archive data are published for the first time. There is information about the direct activities of the underground in the ghetto: collecting weapons and medicines for partisan detachments, sabotage in German production, withdrawing people from the ghetto to partisan detachments. The article allows us to establish a connection between the underground of the Minsk ghetto and the partisan movement in Belarus.

Keywords:Belarussian SSR, Great Patriotic War, ghetto, Jews, Minsk ghetto, occupation regime, The Resistance, anti-fascist underground.