Bronnaya Gora
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Bronnaya Gora - railway station, near Brest. Here, the tract is located, a place of mass executions and burials of people during World War II in 1942. June 7, 2007 there was a memorial plaque. Victims of the Holocaust monument was erected.

Bronnaya Gora - a monument to cynical cold-blooded extermination during the Nazi occupation. For the Germans, always disagreeable primarily proved the Jews, so most of those killed are 50 thousand people - Jews, but there are among the dead Russian, Belarusians and people of other nationalities.

In May and June at the railway station Bronnaya Gora were dug mass graves area of ​​16,800 square meters. Beginning in mid-June, we began here took on the execution of any innocent civilians, prisoners of war, including the elderly, women and even small children.

Most of the people killed were from Brest ghetto where Jews forcibly resettled from all neighborhoods of Brest. The ghetto was established December 16, 1941. In the fall of 1942, the Germans demanded a ransom for the lives of its inhabitants, but even received significant amounts of money and valuables, still decided to destroy all the Jews of the ghetto.

Whole trains civilians were brought to the armor of the mountain, where there were already prepared graves. Punishers cynical at first forced people to undress on special platforms, and then packed in their own graves and then shot at lying in the graves of defenseless people.

In March 1944, during the retreat, the Germans decided to cover their tracks and to burn the corpses of those killed on the armor of the mountain. To do this, the inhabitants of Brest forced to dig corpses from their graves and burn them. Funeral pyres burned night and day of 15 consecutive days. After work, the Nazis shot his forced aides, and on-site burning of corpses planted saplings.

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