Starobin (Belarusian: Старобін; Russian: Старобин) is an urban-type settlement in Salihorsk District, Minsk Region, Belarus.
[1] Starobin is known from the 16th century as a part of the Principality of Slutsk within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
[5] Prior to the war, there were 1,210 Jews residing in Starobin, making up 35.43 percent of the population.
[5] The first Aktion took place on 18–19 July 1941, according to Soviet sources, when a motorized detachment of the Wehrmacht shot 372 Jewish men.
[6] The ghetto was finally liquidated in the spring of 1943, with only one Jewish family surviving before they were murdered by the Germans in 1944 as they retreated.