The Shoah (1939–1945)
Rjev Shootings
automne 1941·Rjev
Toll
bilan non établi
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 city on the upper Volga held by the occupant for long months, Rjev sees the Jewish inhabitants who remained registered, confined in a building in the center, then shot on the riverbank.
Rjev, on the upper Volga, becomes a disputed German stronghold for months. The small community that remained in place, swelled by refugees, is registered and confined, then shot during the winter; the city itself is almost entirely destroyed by the fighting.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Russie
Sources
Encyclopaedia Judaica ; documentation de Yad Vashem sur les territoires soviétiques occupés.