The Shoah (1939–1945)
Roundup of Bolekhiv
septembre 1942·Bolekhiv
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The roundup of the small town in Eastern Galicia takes place over several days, house by house; those who do not leave in the wagons are shot in the cemetery or in courtyards. The account of these days, reconstructed long afterward by the descendants of a vanished family, made the town known well beyond the region.
Bolekhiv, a small town in eastern Galicia known for its tanneries, was subjected in the autumn to an operation lasting several days: a roundup in the square, executions in the community hall and in the streets, then convoys to a death center. The enclosed quarter was subsequently reduced to a few workshops, which were liquidated the following spring. The detailed testimony of a survivor, collected after the war, has made this town one of the best-documented cases in the province.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Dieter Pohl, *Nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung in Ostgalizien* ; *Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos*, dirigée par Geoffrey Megargee.