The area of Ghetto A extended between Wilenska and Zamkowa Streets. During the "Aktion of 10,000" in January 1943 hundreds of Jews, including 100 infants, were killed on the streets of Ghetto A, during the "cleansing" of the ghetto orphanage. Many Jews were also killed in Ghetto A during the "Aktion of 5,000" in February 1943.

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In July 1941 a group of Gestapo men arrived in Grodno. They took 80 members of the Jewish intelligentsia (teachers, lawyers, rabbis, musicians, and some others), all men, out of town and shot them to death close to the village of Naumowicze. Although the exact site of this murder is unknown, the most probable location was in the area of the Second Fort of Grodno, close to the village of Naumowicze. It was there, in ditches close to the fort, that the Nazis executed political opponents in the summer of 1941. Later the Germans established a POW camp in the area of the fort. According to some accounts, the Germans continued to use this area for small scale executions of Jews and other victims as late as 1943.

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The area of the Ghetto B lies between the Skidelska Street (now Kosmonavtov Street) and Legionowa Street (now Belusha Street). The two ghettos, Ghetto A, the main one, in the central part of the town, and Ghetto B, in Grodno's Slobodka area, were definitely the main murder sites of the Grodno Jews. There were four operations to deport the Jews of Grodno (in November 1942 - deportation from the ghetto B to Auschwitz; in January 1943 - the so-called "Aktion of 10,000" - deportation from Ghetto A to the extermination camps of Treblinka and Auschwitz; in February 1943 - the "Aktion of 5,000" - to the same destinations; and in March 1943, when the last Jews of Grodno were deported to the ghetto of Białystok and the Grodno ghetto was liquidated. Each operation in the Grodno ghetto was accompanied by killing in the city. The Germans killed those Jews who tried to evade the deportation and whom they found in improvised shelters they had constructed inside the ghetto, as well as those who were too weak to walk to the collection point, and others. There was also random killing. During the "Aktion of 10,000" hundreds of Jews were killed on the streets of Ghetto A. Many Jews were also killed in February 1943 in Ghetto A during the "Aktion of 5,000."

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During the third "Aktion" in Grodno in February 1943 (the "Aktion of 5,000"), almost 50 Jews succeeded in escaping from the ghetto and hiding in the Góry Kredowe Hills, ca. 2.5 kilometers west of the town center. The Nazis found them all and shot them on the spot.

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