The Shoah (1939–1945)
Shootings of Ostrog
4 août 1941·Ostrog
Toll
~3 000
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
The Jews of the city are taken out of the city and shot in pits prepared in advance.
On the fourth day of August, the Jews of Ostrog are led outside the town and shot in pits prepared in advance.
The preparation of the pits before the arrival of the victims is the sign of a planned operation and not a reaction. It implies a logistics — reconnaissance of the terrain, requisition of workers, calculation of volumes — that the reports document and which precludes seeing it as an outburst of troops.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Sources
Rapports des Einsatzgruppen ; mémorial communautaire de la ville.