The Ghetto in Baran (September 1941 – April 8, 1942) was a Jewish ghetto, a site of forced relocation for the Jews of Baran in the Orsha District of the Vitebsk Region, and nearby villages, during the persecution and extermination of Jews under the Nazi occupation of Belarus during World War II.

The town was captured by German forces on July 16, 1941, and the occupation lasted nearly three years, until June 27, 1944.

[4] On April 8, 1942, the remaining Jews of Baran were marched under the guard of German soldiers and Belarusian police to a pre-dug pit on the outskirts and killed.

During this "aktion" (organized mass murders), a 16-year-old girl named Lena Polykovskaya attempted to escape but was shot.

[5] A monument to the victims of the Jewish genocide in Baran is located in the town cemetery, 300 meters from Sorokina Street.