The Red Army entered the ghetto of Minsk. This ghetto was created by the Nazis when they invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and welcomed 100,000 Jews. Most were killed in the Holocaust. As in other ghettos, the Jews were forced to work in factories controlled by the Germans and the citizens lived in very precarious conditions, with a lack of food and medicine. The Nazis also committed great atrocities in this place, and when the Red Army entered, few people were alive. However, if Minsk ghetto stands out for something, this is because of the resistance it organised on a large scale. They collaborated with the Soviet partisans and 10,000 Jews fled and joined them in the forests of the fighting area.