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Łachwa Ghetto uprising and massacre

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Łachwa Ghetto

Łachwa (or Lakhva) Ghetto was a World War II ghetto created on 1 April 1942 by Nazi Germany in the town of Łachwa in occupied Poland (now Lakhva, Belarus), with the aim of persecution, terror and exploitation of the local Jews. The ghetto existed only until September. It was the location of one of the first, and possibly the first,[2][3] Jewish ghetto uprising after the Nazi–Soviet Invasion of Poland.

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