Unit: Sonderkommando 7b (Einsatzgruppe B). Place on map: Slonim, Belarus. Date on map: 5 July 1941.
Coordinates: 53.0869, 25.3163 (approximate modern locality centroid; verify before final publication).
On 5 July 1941, the map places SK 7b, within Einsatzgruppe B in or near Slonim, Belarus. This record should be used first as a route/presence marker derived from the map, not as proof that a specific killing action took place on that exact date and in that exact locality. Einsatzgruppe B moved east through Belorussia toward Smolensk. USHMM names Grodno, Minsk, Brest-Litovsk, Slonim, Gomel and Mogilev among places connected with its killing operations. The wider context is Operation Barbarossa and the rapid transition from persecution and occupation policy to mass murder by mobile SS and police killing units behind the German front. For publication, verify the locality and date against the Ereignismeldungen UdSSR, Yad Vashem's 'Untold Stories' locality project, USHMM locality articles/collections, and, where available, Yahad-In Unum material on killing sites and testimony. High-priority locality. USHMM identifies Slonim as a location connected with Einsatzgruppe B activity; verify event chronology from dedicated locality sources. Map note: SK 7b-route en datum leesbaar.
Further research search terms: Slonim | SK 7b | Einsatzgruppe B | 5 July 1941 | Ereignismeldungen UdSSR | Yad Vashem Untold Stories | USHMM
Sources and starting points for further research:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karte_-_Einsatzgruppen_in_der_Sowjetunion_1941.png
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/einsatzgruppen-and-other-ss-and-police-units-in-the-soviet-union
https://www.yadvashem.org/research/research-projects/untold-stories-intro.html
https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/de/archive/1-2-7-20_2273000
https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/about/final-solution-beginning/mass-murder-in-ussr.html
https://studyguide.yiu.ngo/en/holocaust-by-bullets
