Shumilina, Belarus

Shumilina or Shumilino (Belarusian: Шуміліна, romanized: Šumilina; Russian: Шумилино) is an urban-type settlement in Shumilina District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus.

After the German invasion of Poland, a significant population of Polish Jews came to the city.

The Jewish inhabitants were kept imprisoned in an enclosed ghetto in August 1941.

[2] The ghetto was liquidated on November 19, 1941, when the Germans and local police perpetrated a mass execution of around 300 Jews.

After the shootings, witnesses recounted that the Jewish houses were plundered.