1900–1939
Pogrom in Belarusian Polesie
1920·Khoïniki
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the Jewish town in the marshes sacked, its inhabitants ransomed
Khoïniki, a Jewish shtetl in the marshes of the Belarusian Polesia, stood apart from the main roads. The armed bands that scoured the region nevertheless reached it and ransacked it. The inhabitants were held to ransom, their homes stripped of their provisions as winter approached. The shtetl's isolation, which had shielded it from armies, left it defenseless against local detachments.
- Period :
- 1900–1939
- Type :
- Pogrom
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Biélorussie
Sources
Elias Tcherikower, *Antisemitizm un pogromen in Ukraine* ; Lidia Miliakova (dir.), *Le Livre des pogroms*.