The Shoah (1939–1945)
Rahatchow Shootings
1941·Rahatchow
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 open ghetto in Rahatchow, at the confluence of the Dniepr and the Droutz, is liquidated before winter; inhabitants are led in groups to pits on the outskirts.
The open ghetto in Rahatchow, at the confluence of the Dniepr and the Droutz, is liquidated before winter. The inhabitants are led in groups to open pits on the outskirts of the town. A portion of the Jewish population had followed the evacuation eastward; those who remained are shot during the autumn.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Biélorussie
*Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos*, dirigée par Geoffrey Megargee ; Yitzhak Arad, *The Holocaust in the Soviet Union*.