The Shoah (1939–1945)
Sharhorod Ghetto
1941-1944·Sharhorod
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 Podolia where deportees from Bukovina are crammed in with the local Jewish population; a typhus epidemic claims hundreds of people during the first winter.
A town in Podolia where deportees from Bukovina are crowded together with the local Jewish population, Sharhorod experiences a typhus epidemic during the very first winter, which the deported doctors fight with whatever means are at hand. A mutual aid organization distributes the scarce available food there, and the town is among the rare places in the region where a notable proportion of those imprisoned survive until liberation.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Jean Ancel, *Transnistria* ; *Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos*, dirigée par Geoffrey Megargee.