Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
ילקוט מורשת
Angaben zur Quelle:
90 (תשעב) 73-94
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
Abstract:
Tuchyn (near Rovno, Ukraine) is one of the few towns where, prior to a mass shooting planned by the Nazis in fall 1942, the Jews ventured to flee en masse to the forests. Presents numerous excerpts from Jewish survivors' testimonies found in the Yad Vashem and Moreshet archives in Israel. Together, these excerpts give a picture of the events in Tuchyn and its vicinity between 1941-43. Describes the first anti-Jewish measures in 1941, a pogrom in July 1941, the collaboration of the local Ukrainian population with the Nazis, and attempts at resistance. After Yom Kippur of 1942, the Jews of Tuchyn set their town on fire. Most of them fled to the nearby forests, though some opted to commit suicide. After a few weeks, several hundred of those who had fled returned to the town because of the difficulties involved, and were killed; many others were captured by Germans or local peasants, or were killed by Ukrainian nationalist partisans. Only 15 Tuchyn Jews (out of several thousand) survived the war. The case of Tuchyn shows that escape as a type of resistance was effective only to a small extent; chances of surviving in the forests were almost nil.
Note:
הופיע בתוך "ילקוט מורשת" ב,ב (תשכד) 81-95.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
