Bronna Góra

Bronna Góra
Old train tracks leading to location of forest massacres at Bronna Góra
Location of Bronna Góra in World War II, (northeast of Sobibor death camp)
Bronna Mount Location of Bronna Góra in modern day Belarus (see above)
Location	Bronna Góra, Polesie Voivodeship, occupied Second Polish Republic 52°07′N 26°6′E / 52.117°N 26.100°E / 52.117; 26.100Coordinates: 52°07′N 26°6′E / 52.117°N 26.100°E / 52.117; 26.100
Date	May 1942 – November 1942
Incident type	Mass killings over execution pits dug in the forest
Perpetrators	Schutzstaffel (SS)
Participants	SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV)
Ghetto	Brześć, Bereza, Janów Poleski, Kobryń, , Pińsk Ghetto
Victims	50,000 Jews
Notes	The Holocaust in Poland

Bronna Góra (or Bronna Mount in English, Belarusian: Бронная Гара, Bronnaja Hara) is a name of secluded area in present-day Belarus where mass killings of Polish Jews were carried out by Nazi Germany during World War II. The location was part of the eastern half of occupied Poland, which was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1939 in agreement with Germany, and captured by the Wehrmacht two years later in Operation Barbarossa. It is estimated that from May 1942 until November of that year, during the most deadly phase of the Holocaust in Poland, some 50,000 Jews were murdered at Bronna Góra over execution pits. The victims were delivered in Holocaust trains from the wartime Jewish ghettos in Brześć, Bereza, Janów Poleski, Kobryń, , Antopol and other places along the western border of the Reichskommissariat Ostland (present-day West Belarus).

After a century of foreign domination, Poland regained independence at the end of World War I. Bronna Góra was assigned to rural gmina Piaski (powiat kosowski) of the Polesie Voivodeship in the Second Polish Republic, and remained there until the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. There was a forester's lodge on site run by the state inspectorate, but more importantly, there was also a railway stop at the edge of the woods whose purpose became ominous two years later. Bronna Góra became the location of secluded massacres in 1942, with trainloads of Jews transported and dislodged there from the Ghetto in Brześć, the Pińsk Ghetto, and all other ghettos created by Nazi Germany in the area.