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Russian Probe Committee Says Germans Murdered 100,000 Jews in Minsk Ghetto

September 21, 1944
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The Moscow radio said today that the committee investigating German atrocities at Minsk has reported that 100,000 Jews were tortured and killed in the Minsk ghetto during the Nazi occupation. Jews and non-Jews were asphyxiated in portable gas wagons while others were shot, the broadcast said.

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