The Shoah (1939–1945)
Shootings of Iwie
1942·Iwie
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 Jewish inhabitants of the town were gathered in the market square, sorted, then led to a nearby wood where the graves had been dug the day before.
The Jewish inhabitants of Iwie are gathered in the market square, sorted by their fitness for labor, then led to a nearby forest where pits had been dug the day before. The craftsmen who are retained are confined to a reduced ghetto, then transferred to a labor camp in the region when the town is declared emptied.
- 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*.