The Shoah (1939–1945)
Liquidation of the Pinsk ghetto
octobre-novembre 1942·Pinsk
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One of the largest ghettos in Polesie is liquidated in a matter of days; the columns are led to pits dug on the outskirts of the city, and the last craftsmen are killed shortly after.
Capital of Polesie and one of the great Jewish cities of old Lithuania, Pinsk had seen its men rounded up and shot in the very first weeks of occupation. The ghetto that imprisoned the survivors was liquidated after a year of forced labor: the inhabitants were led to open pits outside the city, and the few fugitives who reached the marshes joined the detachments operating there.
- 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*.