On 23 June 1941, the city came under German occupation that lasted until 16 July 1944. It was administered as part of the Bialystok District. Surviving inmates of the Grodno prison were released and the scale of the NKVD prisoner massacres revealed.Institute of National Remembrance, Lato 1941 – polski dramat (Summer of 1941 – the Polish drama). Special Issue, 22 June 2011. PDF file, 1.63 MB. In the course of Operation Barbarossa in World War II, the majority of Jews were herded by the Nazis into the Grodno Ghetto and subsequently killed in extermination camps.Felix Zandman, J. Szwarc and A. May, eds. (2016). "Liquidation of the Ghettos and the Deportations to the Camps (November 2, 1942 – March 12, 1942)". The German Occupation - 4. Lost Jewish Worlds. The Germans also operated a Nazi prison in the city.
On 23 June 1941, the city came under German occupation that lasted until 16 July 1944. It was administered as part of the Bialystok District. Surviving inmates of the Grodno priso?n were released and the scale of the NKVD prisoner massacres revealed.Institute of National Remembrance, Lato 1941 – polski dramat (Summer of 1941 – the Polish drama). Special Issue, 22 June 2011. PDF file, 1.63 MB. In the course of Operation Barbarossa in World War II, the majority of Jews were herded by the Nazis into the Grodno Ghetto and subsequently killed in extermination camps.Felix Zandman, J. Szwarc and A. May, eds (2016). "Liquidation of the Ghettos and the Deportations to the Camps (November 2, 1942 – March 12, 1942)". The German Occupation - 4. Lost Jewish Worlds. The Germans also operated a Nazi prison in the city.