Claim: Švenčionys Ghetto had 566 Jews - some of which established contracts with active Soviet partisans, who frustrated economical exploitation plans of the Germans towards Soviet territories, while the others joined Jewish partisans.
Evidence: Švenčionys or Svintsyan Ghetto was a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Švenčionys (pre-war Second Polish Republic, post-war Lithuanian SSR). At its peak, the ghetto housed some 1,500 prisoners. According to a census of August 1942, the ghetto had 566 Jews, including 353 working men and women. Younger inmates began procuring weapons and establishing contacts with the Soviet partisans active in the region (now eastern Lithuania and western Belarus). A number of Jews escaped and joined Jewish partisans.