The Shoah (1939–1945)
Liquidation of the Kamin-Kashyrskyi Ghetto
novembre 1942·Kamin-Kashyrskyi
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The community of the small town in the marshes, one of the oldest in Polesia, is annihilated at the beginning of winter; the inhabitants are led out of the town and shot, and the last artisans killed shortly after in the courtyard of their workshop.
The enclosed quarter of Kamin-Kashyrskyi, in the heart of the Polésie marshes, is liquidated in the autumn, its inhabitants led in groups toward pits dug at a distance from the town. The terrain, made up of peat bogs and woodland, had allowed a few young people to flee in the preceding weeks and join armed detachments; it is their testimonies that established the course of the operation.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Shmuel Spector, *The Holocaust of Volhynian Jews* ; Leonid Smilovitsky, *Holocaust in Belorussia*.