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The Holocaust in Chachersk was the ghettoization and genocide of the Jews and Romani people mainly in the Belarusian shtetl of Chachersk, as well as in the greater Chachersk District located inside the Gomel Oblast during the Holocaust. Invading Soviet-controlled Belarus as a part of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany subjected Chachersk and neighboring shtetls to systematic extermination.[1][2] Entire Jewish and Romani populations in the region were rounded up in Nazi-organized ghettos and later murdered,[1][3] in one of the earliest phases of the Final Solution.
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