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(Thursday, October 29, 1942, 6:30 a.m. Central European Summer Time; during The Holocaust, part of World War II) — Liquidation of the Pinsk Ghetto, a Nazi ghetto created by Nazi Germany for the confinement of Jews living in the city of Pinsk in eastern Poland, began this morning as soldiers of an SS detachment poured into the ghetto, armed with clubs, double-headed axes and accompanied by dogs.

Video: 'The World at War Extra 8 The Final Solution Auschwitz 6/6' (Pinsk ghetto liquidation continues at 0:00)

Most of the 17,000 killings took place through Sunday, Nov. 1, 1942, by Police Battalion 306 of the German Order Police, and other units. The ghetto ceased to exist entirely.

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Pinsk was occupied by the Red Army in 1939 and incorporated into the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. The city was captured by the Wehrmacht in Operation Barbarossa on July 4, 1941; it was incorporated into the German Reichskommissariat Ukraine in autumn 1941.

On Aug. 5-7, 1941, 8,000 Jews were murdered just outside of Pinsk. The subsequent creation of the ghetto was followed – over a year later – by the murder of the imprisoned Jewish population of Pinsk, totaling 26,200 victims: men, women, and children.