Camp Koldychevo - Koldyczewo in Polish - was first used as a forced labor camp in Belorussia established by the Nazis late in 1941. Later it became a notorious concentration camp for Russians and Poles who were interned along with Jews transferred from the surrounding ghettos of Baranovichi, Nowogrodek, Slonim, and others. Prior to the camp's liquidation on 29 June 1944, over 22,000 inmates were murdered and buried in 38 mass graves in and around the camp. An active Jewish resistance group, led by Shlomo Kushnir, existed within camp Koldychevo. On the night of 22 March 1944, he succeeded in leading almost all the Jewish inmates still alive out of the camp after first killing ten Nazi guards. Kushnir committed suicide when he and 25 others were recaptured by the Nazis. Others who managed to get away joined the partisans in the forests. Please mention the Site you are commenting on when you sent
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