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The Shoah (1939–1945)

Ghetto of Kishinev

Juill.-août 1941·Kichinev

Toll
~10 000

The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.

After the massacres at the outbreak of war, the survivors are locked in a ghetto and then deported to Transnistria.

After the massacres that accompanied the outbreak of war, the surviving Jews of Kichinev were confined in a ghetto and then deported to Transnistria.

Bessarabia, retaken from the Soviet Union by Romania, was treated as a region to be "purified." Deportation to Transnistria — Ukrainian territory placed under Romanian administration — was not mere banishment: the convoys crossed the Dniester on foot, in columns, and many never arrived. It was an extermination by marching and starvation, distinct in its methods from that carried out by the Germans through mass shooting.

Period :
The Shoah (1939–1945)
Type :
Shoah
Region :
Central and Eastern Europe
Country :
Moldavie
Sources

Archives roumaines ; rapports de la commission internationale sur la Shoah en Roumanie.

At the same place2

  1. 19-20 avril 1903Kishinev pogrom49
  2. octobre 1905Second Pogrom of Kishinev, two years after that of 1903~19

In the same country14

  1. 1872Pogrom in Bessarabiainconnu
  2. févr. 1903Accusation of ritual murder following the discovery of a child's bodyinconnu
  3. oct. 1905October pogrom in Bessarabiadizaines
  4. oct. 1905October pogrom on the Dniestrdizaines
  5. oct. 1905October pogrom in Bessarabiadizaines
  6. été 1941Mărculești transit campplusieurs milliers de morts
  7. été 1941Transit camp of Edinețplusieurs milliers de morts
  8. juillet 1941Massacre of Sorocabilan non établi

And 6 more in the catalogue.

Event 1514 of 2483, in chronological order · The Shoah (1939–1945): 915 events in the catalogue