The Shoah (1939–1945)
Transit camp of Vaoukavysk
1942·Vaoukavysk
Toll
bilan non établi
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
The Jews of the region were crowded into barracks dug into the earth at the town's edge, before being sent by convoy to an extermination centre.
The Jews of the Vaoukavysk region are crammed into earthen barracks dug on the outskirts of the city, where cold, hunger, and typhus claim many victims. The survivors are then dispatched by convoys to a death center, and the transit camp is emptied within a matter of weeks.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Biélorussie
Sources
*Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos*, dirigée par Geoffrey Megargee ; Yitzhak Arad, *The Holocaust in the Soviet Union*.