The Shoah (1939–1945)
Liquidation of the Dokchytsy Ghetto
printemps 1942·Dokchytsy
Toll
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A town in northern Polesia, Dokchytsy sees its ghetto surrounded in spring, its inhabitants led to graves dug apart, while a few young people escape toward detachments in the marshes.
Dokchytsy, a town in the Vitebsk region, sees its Jews confined in an enclosed quarter, swelled by those from neighboring villages. The roundups of spring and summer lead the inhabitants in columns toward pits dug at the edge of town; a few escape into the marshes and join the partisans.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Biélorussie
Sources
Encyclopaedia Judaica ; documentation de Yad Vashem sur la Biélorussie.