The Shoah (1939–1945)
Actions in the Boryslav ghetto
Août 1942·Boryslav
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 of the oil city were deported to Bełżec or shot at Bronica.
Boryslav, in Galicia, is an oil town: its wells and refineries led the occupying forces to maintain for a time a Jewish workforce holding work certificates, which shaped the entire local chronology.
The summer Aktionen directed the inhabitants of the closed quarter toward Bełżec or toward the Bronica forest, where shootings took place. Those who kept their certificates were transferred to a labor camp attached to the oil installations, itself liquidated the following year.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Yad Vashem, *The Untold Stories* ; *Pinkas Hakehillot Polin* ; Archives d'État de la région de Lviv.