List of villages and towns depopulated of Jews during the Holocaust

Below is a partial list of selected villages and towns (shtetls) depopulated of Jews during the Holocaust. The liquidation actions were carried out mostly by the Nazi Einsatzgruppen and Order Police battalions as well as auxiliary police through mass killings. The German "pacification" units of the Einsatzkommando were paramilitary forces within the Schutzstaffel, under the high command of the Obergruppenführer. The Einsatzgruppen operated primarily in the years 1941–45.

The towns and villages are listed by country, as follows:

 · Belarus · Estonia · Hungary · Latvia · Lithuania · Poland · Romania · Russia · Slovenia · Ukraine

Belarus

Hungary

The following Jewish communities in Hungary were either partially or completely destroyed during the Holocaust.

Cinkota

Latvia

Jewish communities in the following Latvian cities, towns and villages were destroyed during the Holocaust:

Lithuania

The following Jewish communities in Lithuania were destroyed during the Holocaust. Note that the list includes places in modern, post-1991 Lithuania, some of which were in German-occupied Poland during the war.

Poland

Romania

Russia

Slovenia

Ukraine

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