Brest ghetto: Walk of memory
On Oct. 15, 1942, prior to the slaughter of the city’s Jews, the town’s “Accounting Book of Population Movement” listed 16,934 Jews in Brisk. [The true number of residents was likely much higher.] On Oct. 16, the number was crossed out by SS authorities and the line left blank. All the Jews were now gone. Brisk was Judenrein
