The Shoah (1939–1945)
Romanian camp of Akmechetka
Janv.-févr. 1942·Akmechetka (Transnistrie)
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
Famine camp set up in a former collective farm, where deportees deemed unfit are left to die.
Akmechetka is one of the camps opened by the Romanian administration in Transnistria, the Ukrainian territory placed under its authority between the Dniester and the Bug. Installed in the buildings of a former collective farm, it has neither workshops nor worksites.
Those deported there are deemed unfit for labor — the elderly, the sick, children — with no organized food supply, and left to wait. The guards have no other orders than to prevent escape; death comes from hunger, cold, and typhus.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Matatias Carp, *Cartea Neagră* ; rapport de la Commission internationale sur l'Holocauste en Roumanie ; Yad Vashem.