The Shoah (1939–1945)
Korosten Shootings
septembre 1941·Korosten
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The Korosten community, a railway hub of Jytomyrchtchyna, is gathered shortly after German troops enter and shot in a ravine near the railway line.
Railway hub of the Jytomyr region, Korosten saw its community gathered shortly after the entry of German troops and shot in a ravine near the tracks. The railway workshops, where many of the town's Jews had worked, had been partially evacuated eastward, and those who had remained were the first to be counted.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
*Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos*, dirigée par Geoffrey Megargee ; Alexander Kruglov, *The Losses Suffered by Ukrainian Jews*.