The Shoah (1939–1945)
Shootings of Stovbtsy
1942·Stovbtsy
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
Railroad junction town, Stovbtsy saw its community shot in stages; the survivors joined the Jewish units in the neighboring forests.
Small town in western Belarus on the Niemen, Stovbtsy sees its ghetto liquidated after a year of forced labor. The inhabitants are led to pits in the surrounding area; a group of young people, forewarned of the operation, manages to cross the fence during the night and reaches the forests where partisan detachments are operating.
- 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*.