The Shoah (1939–1945)
Destruction of the community of Berezhany
1941-1943·Berezhany
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Shootings at the town's edge, deportations to the extermination camp, then liquidation of the ghetto: the community disappears in less than two years, and the great synagogue is left in ruins.
Berezhany, in eastern Galicia, saw its community destroyed in stages, from the first executions of the summer of the invasion to the liquidation of the ghetto. The inhabitants were shot in groups in the Lisniki forest or deported to the Bełżec extermination center. The last survivors hid in the surrounding villages; almost none returned.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Dieter Pohl, *Nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung in Ostgalizien* ; Shimon Redlich, *Together and Apart in Brzezany*.