The Holocaust in the Soviet Union

The Holocaust saw the genocide of at least 2 million Soviet Jews by Nazi Germany, Romania, and local collaborators during the German-Soviet War, part of the wider Second World War. It may also refer to the Holocaust in the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), and Soviet Moldova, recently annexed by the Soviet Union before the start of Operation Barbarossa, in the Soviet republics Belarus, Ukraine, and parts of Russia, as well as other groups murdered in the invasion (such as Roma, Soviet POWs, and others).

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The Holocaust in the Soviet Union

The Holocaust saw the genocide of at least 2 million Soviet Jews by Nazi Germany, Romania, and local collaborators during the German-Soviet War, part of the wider Second World War. It may also refer to the Holocaust in the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), and Soviet Moldova, recently annexed by the Soviet Union before the start of Operation Barbarossa, in the Soviet republics Belarus, Ukraine, and parts of Russia, as well as other groups murdered in the invasion (such as Roma, Soviet POWs, and others).

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