The Shoah (1939–1945)
Vileïka shootings
Juill. 1941·Vileïka
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 Jewish men of the city are shot in the first weeks of occupation, before the rest of the population is confined to a ghetto.
The Jewish men of Vileïka are shot in the first weeks of the occupation, before the rest of the population is confined to a ghetto.
This order — men first, women and children next — is that of the early months. It changes in the autumn, when the instructions cease to distinguish, and it is this shift, traceable in the reports, that marks the transition from a policy of terror to systematic extermination.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Biélorussie
Rapports des Einsatzgruppen ; témoignages recueillis après la guerre.