The Shoah (1939–1945)
Liquidation of the Kremenets ghetto
Août 1942·Kremenets
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The ghetto is liquidated in two weeks; its inhabitants set it on fire rather than leave.
Kremenets, in Volhynia, is dominated by the ruins of its castle and by a Jewish community attested since the Middle Ages. The closed quarter had been established there in the spring, in the lower streets of the town.
Its liquidation lasted about a fortnight at the end of summer. Rather than going out toward the pits, some inhabitants set fire to the houses of the quarter: the blaze spread and part of the old town burned, which delayed the action without changing its outcome.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Yad Vashem, *The Untold Stories* ; *Kremenets Memorial Book* ; Archives d'État de la région de Ternopil.