The Shoah (1939–1945)
Shootings of Sourai
automne 1941·Sourai
Toll
bilan non établi
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A small town in the Bryansk region, Sourai sees its Jewish families gathered in the square then led to the neighboring ravine, where local auxiliaries lend a hand to the mobile units.
Sourai, a small town on the fringes of the Briansk region, loses its Jewish inhabitants during the autumn operations: registered, stripped of their belongings, then led out of town and shot into an open pit dug on its outskirts, along with the refugees whom the retreat had left behind there.
- 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.