What the records say
- When
- 25 Jun 1941
- Kind
- Pogrom
- Deaths
- 300
- Coordinates
- 53.57° N, 22.30° E
- Description
- 1941 massacre of Jews in Szczuczyn by ethnic Poles during Axis invasion of Soviet Union
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Szczuczyn pogrom
Antisemitic pogrom
Szczuczyn pogrom was the massacre of some 300 Jews in the community of Szczuczyn carried out by its Polish inhabitants in June 1941 after the town was bypassed by the invading German soldiers in the beginning of Operation Barbarossa. The June massacre was stopped by German soldiers after Jewish women bribed them to intervene.
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- Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Погром в Щучине, массовое убийство евреев польского города Щучин, с активным участием в погроме местных жителей”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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