The Shoah (1939–1945)
Uprising and liquidation of the Kletsk ghetto
21 juil. 1942·Kletsk
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At the same time as the neighboring town, the ghetto rose up and burned; the survivors who reached the marshes formed one of the first nuclei of Jewish fighters in the region.
Kletsk, a few leagues from Nesvizh, sees its ghetto liquidated on the same day as that of its neighbor. Warned of the fate that awaits them, the inhabitants set fire to the barracks and attempt to break through the barricade; many are shot down in the streets, the others led to the pits dug at the edge of the town. A few young people reach the forests and join the partisan detachments there.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Biélorussie
*Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos*, dirigée par Geoffrey Megargee ; Leonid Smilovitsky, *Holocaust in Belorussia*.