The Shoah (1939–1945)
Shootings of Polonne
septembre 1941·Polonne
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The community of Polonne, one of the oldest in Volhynia, is destroyed in the autumn; the town had already been devastated during the uprisings of the seventeenth century.
The community of Polonne, one of the oldest in Volhynia, had already been devastated during the uprisings of the seventeenth century, and the town appears in the lamentations composed after those years. It is destroyed in the autumn of the occupation: the inhabitants are gathered in the square, led out of the town, and shot at the edge of pits prepared in advance.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
*Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos*, dirigée par Geoffrey Megargee ; Shmuel Spector, *The Holocaust of Volhynian Jews*.