The Shoah (1939–1945)
Balta Ghetto
1942·Balta
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
Placed under Romanian administration, Balta receives convoys of deportees from Bessarabia and Bukovina; cold, hunger and typhus claim some of those confined over two winters.
Placed under Romanian administration after the invasion, Balta received in its ghetto convoys of deportees from Bessarabie and Bucovine, crowded together with the local Jewish population. The cold, hunger, and typhus carried away a portion of those imprisoned over the course of two winters; an improvised committee opened a canteen and a dispensary there, allowing others to hold on until liberation.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Jean Ancel, *Transnistria* ; *Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos*, dirigée par Geoffrey Megargee.