The Shoah (1939–1945)
Shootings of Zaporizhzhia
Oct. 1941·Zaporijjia
Toll
plusieurs milliers
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 Jews remaining in the city are shot in the ravines on the outskirts by Einsatzgruppe C.
The Jews who remained in Zaporijjia are shot in the ravines on the outskirts by Einsatzgruppe C.
The ravines — the *balki* of the Russian and Ukrainian south — serve everywhere as execution sites, for the same reason as anti-tank ditches: they dispense with the need to dig. Babi Yar, in Kiev, is the best known of them, but it is merely the largest in a series that runs from Volhynia to the Don.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Sources
Rapports des Einsatzgruppen ; commission soviétique d'enquête.