The Shoah (1939–1945)
Kremenchuk shootings
Oct. 1941·Kremenchouk
Toll
plusieurs milliers
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
The Jews of the town are gathered then shot on the outskirts.
The Jews of Kremenchouk were gathered together and then shot at the outskirts of the city.
On the Dnieper, the German advance had been swift enough that the Soviet evacuation remained only partial. Those who left survived; those who stayed almost all died — and what decided the fate of a community was often nothing more than the date on which the front reached it, compared to that of the last departing trains.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Sources
Rapports des Einsatzgruppen ; commission soviétique d'enquête.