page_title: Minsk Ghetto
section_title: Resistance
hierarchical_section_title: Minsk Ghetto / Resistance
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Михаил Львович ГебелевFrançais&#160;: Mikhaïl Guebelev
context_page_description: The Minsk Ghetto was created soon after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. It was one of the largest in Belorussian SSR, and the largest in the German-occupied territory of the Soviet Union. It housed close to 100,000 Jews, most of whom perished in The Holocaust.
context_section_description: The Minsk Ghetto is notable for its large scale resistance organization, which cooperated closely with Soviet partisans. About 10,000 Jews were able to escape the ghetto and join  partisan groups in the nearby forests. Barbara Epstein estimates that perhaps half of them survived, and notes that all together, perhaps as many as 30,000 people tried to escape the Minsk Ghetto to join the partisans (but 20,000 of them could have died along the way).
caption: Mikhail Gebelev, Head of Resistance
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