Place in Belarus

What happened to the Jews in Pinsk

20 events, 1514 AD to 1966 AD

16th century

  1. 1514 AD Privileges confirmed, freeing Jews from special duties and taxes · Pinsk, Belarus
  2. 1551 AD Pinsk Jews freed from the "serebschizna" tax · Pinsk, Belarus
  3. 1561 AD Pinsk Jews placed under a royal judge and stores handed to burghers · Pinsk, Belarus
  4. 1581 AD Jewish shops in Pinsk market ordered torn down for a town hall · Pinsk, Belarus
  5. 1581 AD Jews barred from acquiring houses in Pinsk · Pinsk, Belarus

17th century

  1. 1648 AD Chmielnicki massacre of Jews in Pinsk · Pinsk, Belarus
  2. 1660 AD Muscovite and Cossack depredations against Pinsk Jews · Pinsk, Belarus

20th century

  1. 1919 AD Pinsk massacre · Pinsk, Belarus
  2. 1939 AD Pińsk Ghetto · Pinsk, Belarus
  3. 1939–1941 AD Soviet closure of Jewish institutions and expulsion of businessmen in Pinsk · Pinsk, Belarus
  4. 1940 AD Deportation of Jewish refugees from Pinsk to Soviet interior · Pinsk, Belarus
  5. 1941 AD Economic repression and gold levy on Pinsk Jews · Pinsk, Belarus
  6. 1941 AD Murder of 8,000 Jewish men near Pinsk · Pinsk, Belarus
  7. 1942 AD 16,000 Jews murdered at Pinsk · Pinsk, Belarus
  8. 1942 AD Execution of last 150 artisans and liquidation of Pinsk ghetto · Pinsk, Belarus
  9. 1942 AD Final Aktion in the Pinsk ghetto · Pinsk, Belarus
  10. 1942 AD Murder of patients in the Jewish hospital in Pinsk · Pinsk, Belarus
  11. 1942 AD Pinsk Jews ordered into a ghetto within one day · Pinsk, Belarus
  12. 1959 AD Karlin cemetery converted into a park · Pinsk, Belarus
  13. 1966 AD Last Pinsk prayerhouse closed by police · Pinsk, Belarus

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