The Shoah (1939–1945)
Briceni massacre
juillet 1941·Briceni
Toll
bilan non établi
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Town in northern Bessarabia whose population was almost entirely Jewish, Briceni sees its inhabitants plundered and massacred in the first days of reconquest, survivors being driven toward transit camps.
Briceni, a town in northern Bessarabia almost entirely Jewish, is devastated upon the entry of the troops: houses are looted, some of the inhabitants shot dead in the streets, and the survivors gathered for the march toward transit camps, then toward the left bank of the Dniester.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Moldavie
Sources
Matatias Carp, Cartea Neagră ; Encyclopaedia Judaica ; documentation de Yad Vashem.