Tarnopol Ghetto

Tarnopol Ghetto
Synagogue
Tarnopol Synagogue prior to destruction during World War II
Tarnopol location during the Holocaust in Poland
Tarnopol Ghetto is located in Ukraine
Tarnopol Ghetto
Tarnopol Ghetto
Ternopil in modern-day Ukraine (compare with above)
LocationTarnopol, German-occupied Poland
49°20′N 25°22′E / 49.34°N 25.36°E / 49.34; 25.36
Incident typeImprisonment, forced labor, starvation, mass killings
OrganizationsSchutzstaffel (SS), Einsatzgruppe C, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, Wehrmacht
ExecutionsTarnopol cemeteries
Victims20,000 Jews
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The Tarnopol Ghetto (Polish: getto w Tarnopolu, German: Ghetto Tarnopol) was a Jewish World War II ghetto established in 1941 by the Schutzstaffel (SS) in the prewar Polish city of Tarnopol (now Ternopil, Ukraine).[1]

  1. ^ Joshua D. Zimmerman (2015), The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945. Cambridge University Press via Google Books. "The Provinces of Poland on the Eve of World War II," pp. xviii, 278, 328, 347. At Teheran (1943) Churchill told Stalin that he wished to see a new Poland "friendly to Russia". Stalin replied that nevertheless, he considered the annexation of Eastern Poland "just and right" only along the frontiers of the Nazi-Soviet invasion of 1939.[p. 351]

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