The Shoah (1939–1945)
Ostrów Mazowiecka Massacre
nov. 1939·Ostrów Mazowiecka
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Following a fire, the Jewish population of the town is shot by German police in the first weeks of occupation.
Ostrów Mazowiecka, a district seat northeast of Varsovie, on the road to Białystok, was home to an ancient Jewish community that made up close to half of the population. A few weeks after German troops entered the town, a fire devastated part of the city; the occupying forces blamed the Jews. The inhabitants were rounded up, led out of the town to pits prepared in advance, and shot. This was one of the first mass killings carried out in occupied Pologne, and it preceded the establishment of the death camps by more than two years. The survivors were those who had fled eastward.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Pologne
Pinkas Hakehillot Polin ; Yad Vashem, base des communautés.