The Shoah (1939–1945)
Liquidation of the Stoubtsy ghetto
automne 1942·Stoubtsy
Toll
bilan non établi
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A town on the Niemen where the border once passed, Stoubtsy sees its closed quarter emptied by an autumn roundup, the inhabitants led to the river's edge and shot down, some making their way to the woods.
Stoubtsy, on the Niemen, lived off timber floating and grain trading. Its community is locked in, put to forced labor, then led in groups toward pits dug at the edge of town; a few young people join the partisan detachments forming in the nearby forests.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Biélorussie
Sources
Pinkas Hakehillot ; Encyclopaedia Judaica ; documentation de Yad Vashem.