The Shoah (1939–1945)
Shootings in Hlubokoe
juin 1942·Hloubokoïe
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 Hlubokoe ghetto was liquidated after armed resistance lasting a few hours; the fighters fired from the attics before the buildings were set on fire.
A town in northern Belarus, Hloubokoïe receives in its ghetto the Jews from neighboring localities before being emptied during the summer. Some of those imprisoned, who had gathered weapons and fortified several houses, resist the entry of the columns and set fire to the neighborhood; the others are led toward the surrounding pits.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Biélorussie
*Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos*, dirigée par Geoffrey Megargee ; Yitzhak Arad, *The Holocaust in the Soviet Union*.