Maly Trostenets Extermination Camp

Maly Trostinets was a former collective farm located at the East of Minsk in Eastern Belorussia where the Nazis established a concentration camp in 1941. Thecamp initially held Soviet prisoners of war. But it became a extermination camp in 1942. Russian prisoners of war and Jews were forced to build the barracksfor the six hundred slave laborers and their guards. Maly Trostenets was the biggest death camp on the territory of Belorussia. It was directed by KarlStreibel, a T
rawniki commandant.
Most of the victims killed at the extermination camp were lined up in front of pits, 50 meters long and 3 meters deep and shotto death or buried at the Blagovschina forest, next to Maly Trostenets, in gas vans or mobile gas chambers that transported them. Once they reached the forestthe doors were unlocked and the bodies of the gassed deportees were thrown into open graves.
When the Soviets arrived at the camp on 1944 the Nazis bombedthe camp in an attempt to obliterate evidence of its existence. They locked up the remaining prisoners as well, and burned the buildings to the ground. Nosurvivors of the camp are known to exist.
The Original number of people killed there is ranged 206,000 victims. Yad Vashem currently estimates that 65,000 Jewswere murdered at the camp. The numbers are unclear because the Nazis destroyed every record of the Maly Trostenets camp. Currently nothing remains of the campother than a row of poplars planted by the inmates as part of the border of the camp.

NO TRESPASING
trespassers will be shot without warning
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