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Yad Vashem is open to the general public, free of charge. All visits to Yad Vashem must be reserved in advance.

Partisans in the Vinnitsa District, Ukraine,  January 1943

In 1939, some 40,000 Jews lived in the Vinnitsa district of Ukraine, 33,000 of whom resided in the city of Vinnitsa itself. Before the German occupation, over half the city’s Jews fled eastward into the USSR. Most of the Jews who remained in Vinnitsa had been murdered by April 1942. Hundreds of Jewish partisans were active in the forests near Vinnitsa. Some of them concealed their Jewish identity due to antisemitism.