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On Thurs. 29 Oct 1942 16,000 Ukrainian Jews of Pinsk Ghetto in Poland (n.....

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16,000 Ukrainian Jews of Pinsk Ghetto in Poland (now in Belarus) were massacred two days after Heinrich Himmler ordered the liquidation of this ghetto.

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