The Shoah (1939–1945)
Pryluky shootings
1941·Pryluky
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 community of Pryluky, in the Poltava region, is destroyed shortly after occupation; some inhabitants had managed to flee eastward before the front arrived.
The community of Pryluky, in the Poltava region, is destroyed shortly after the occupation. Some of the inhabitants had been able to follow the evacuation of the workshops eastward before the front closed; those who had remained, mostly elderly people, women and children, are gathered and shot on the outskirts of the city.
- 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*.