The Shoah (1939–1945)
Ovroutch Shootings
novembre 1941·Ovroutch
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
A town in Polessia where the Hasidism of Chernobyl had its court, Ovroutch sees its Jewish population confined then led out of the city and shot at the edge of pits dug in the sand.
A town in Polesia where the Hassidic court of Tchernobyl had established one of its branches, Ovroutch saw its Jewish population locked up, then led out of the city and shot at the edge of pits dug in the sand. The families who had fled eastward before the front closed were the only ones to escape the operation.
- 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*.