The Shoah (1939–1945)
Shootings of Czortkow
août 1941·Czortkow
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Capital of Galician Podolia where the community held its schools and its hassidic court, Czortkow sees its men assembled in the first weeks of occupation, taken out of the city and shot, then the survivors locked in a closed district.
Czortkow was a county seat of Galician Podolia, known for its Hasidic court and for the schools the community had long maintained there. When German troops entered the city during the summer, Jewish men were summoned under the pretext of labor, gathered in a square, and led out of the town, never to return. The survivors were then confined to an enclosed quarter, subjected to requisitions and levies, until the deportations of the following seasons. The Hasidic court, its books and its registers disappeared along with the men who had kept them.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Encyclopaedia Judaica ; Pinkas Hakehillot, Pologne ; documentation de Yad Vashem sur la Galicie orientale.