Ghetto Brody

Entrance to the ghetto in Brody

Tomb of the approx. 6,000 Jewish residents murdered in May 1943, outskirts of Brody

The Brody Ghetto was a ghetto established under German occupation in Brody , Eastern Galicia . The ghettos at the time of National Socialism were part of the concentration camp system .

history

In September 1939 the Red Army occupied the then Polish city , in accordance with the agreements in the secret additional protocol of the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty .

After the invasion of the Soviet Union 1941 were in the following three years German occupation almost all 9000 Jewish inhabitants Brody's first partially used for forced labor, starting in December 1942 in a ghetto blocked and eventually murdered, with only the smaller part in extermination camps deported was . The far greater part of the several thousand ghetto residents were murdered in mass executions in the neighboring forests in March and April 1943.

See also

• History of the Jews in Ukraine

literature

• Jakov Chonigsman: Evrei Goroda Brody (1584-1944). Lviv 2001.

Web links

• To Eternal Light: Brody, in Memoriam. Translation of Ner Tamid: Yizkor leBrody. Edited by: Organization of former Brody residents in Israel, 1994.
• Roman Zakharii: Galician Jerusalem - Brody as Jewish Intellectual and Cultural Hub of Eastern Galicia. (DOC file; 1.03 MB)
• Brody. ShtetLinks
• Antonella Tiburzi, The Brody Ghetto. The last months of life

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brody Ghetto. deathcamps.org (English)
2. ↑ Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. The persecution and murder of the European Jews. Edited by Eberhard Jäckel, Peter Longerich, Julius H. Schoeps (main editor Israel Gutman), Berlin 1993, p. 244.

Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 57 "  N , 25 ° 8 ′ 27.6"  E