[1] The Mir Ghetto is famous outside of Belarus primarily for its 9 November 1941 massacre, in which 1,800 Jews were slaughtered by German forces and collaborators.

[2] Prior to the outbreak of World War II, over 2,000 Jews lived in the city of Mir, Belarus, in what was then the Second Polish Republic.

With the city being occupied only 35 days after the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, there was little time to escape, and Jews who had fled nearby settlements and western Poland accumulated in Mir alongside the existing Jewish community.

[7] Three months after the occupation began, a ghetto was formally established within the city by German authorities, and all Jews living within the town - then about 3,000 - were forcibly resettled within it.

[15] Another memorial exists at Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery, where a ceremony is held yearly on 9 November in honour of those killed.

[16] In July 1995, former Belarusian Auxiliary Policeman Szymon Serafinowicz was arrested at his home in Banstead, being charged with killing three Jews under the War Crimes Act 1991.