The Shoah (1939–1945)
Ghetto of Šiauliai
1941-1944·Šiauliai
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
Third city of Lithuania, Šiauliai sees its community confined to two quarters; children are removed from it during a separate action, and the last survivors are deported westward as the front approaches.
The third-largest city in Lithuania, Šiauliai sees its Jewish population confined to two separate ghettos, established in the tannery and railroad suburbs. Those imprisoned are put to work in the leather workshops and at the aerodrome construction sites; children and the elderly are taken away during separate operations, and the remaining inhabitants are deported to a coastal camp when the ghetto is dissolved.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Lituanie
*Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos*, dirigée par Geoffrey Megargee ; Eliezer Yerushalmi, *Journal du ghetto de Šiauliai*.