Mizocz Ghetto

Mizocz Ghetto
German police shooting women from the Mizocz Ghetto, 14 October 1942
Also known as	Mizoch Ghetto
Location	Near Rovno, formerly in eastern Poland, now in western Ukraine.
Incident type	Imprisonment without due process, forced labor, mass shootings
Organizations	Einsatzgruppen, Ordnungspolizei, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police
Ghetto	1700 population
Victims	about 800-1200 Ukrainian Jews
Notes	Particularly noted for the series of photographs taken of the mass shootings.
v · Mizoch (Polish: Mizocz), which was located in an area once part of eastern Poland but which is now part of western Ukraine. The nearest major city is Rovno. Uprising and Killings On or about October 12, 1942, the ghetto of about 1700 people was surrounded by Ukrainian auxiliaries and German policemen in preparation for the liquidation of its Jewish occupants. The Jews fought back in a defense which may have lasted as long as two days. About half the residents were able to flee or hide during the confusion before the uprising was finally put down. On October 14, the captured survivors were taken to a ravine and shot. [1] Photographs The shootings were photographed.[2] The photographs were published and have become well known. Frequently the photographs are said to depict other shootings. Historians have commented upon the brutality shown in the Mizocz shooting photographs: In 1942 at Mizocz, in the region of Rovno in Ukraine, approximately 1,700 Jews were executed. The photographs show large numbers of people being herded into a ravine, women and children undressing, a line of naked women and children in a queue and finally their executed bodies. Two particular harrowing photographs show German police standing among heaps of naked corpses of women strewn on either side of the ravine.[3] Further, two of the photographs show the "Aktion" in progress (apparently not, as is often stated in many sources, a "finishing off" of survivors). The photographs give clear evidence of the execution practice, common in Ukraine, of bringing the victims to the killing site in small groups of around five or so individuals, and having them lie down among the prior victims, to be shot in the back of the neck or head with a single bullet. [4] Mizocz photographs have been used ostensibly as evidence of crimes against humanity committed at Treblinka extermination camp.[5] This practice has been criticized as ahistorical.[5] Women and children forced to disrobe in a ravine. Women, some with small children, forming lines while being guarded by Ukrainian auxiliary police. A German policeman stands among the victims bodies as the killing is in progress. Ukrainian auxiliary police also appear to be present. Notes ^ Shmuel Spector, quoting the memoirs of Peretz Goldstein, The Jews of Volhynia and Their Reaction to Extermination . ^ Photographs of the Mizocz shootings are in the USHMM collection (## 17876-17879)/ ^ Struck, Janina, Photographing the Holocaust, at pages 72-73. ^ Patrick Desbois, The Holocaust by Bullets, pages iii-iv. ^ a b Didi-Huberman, Georges, and Lillis, Shane B., Images in Spite of All, at page 67. References Didi-Huberman, Georges, and Lillis, Shane B., Images in Spite of All: Four photographs from Auschwitz, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 ISBN 9780226148168 Struk, Janina, Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of the evidence, London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2004 ISBN 1860645461 Shmuel Spector, The Jews of Volhynia and Their Reaction to Extermination, Published in Yad Vashem Studies 15 (1983) Patrick Desbois, The Holocaust by Bullets, New York, Palgrave McMillan, 2008 ISBN 0230606172 Further reading Huneke, Douglas K., The Moses of Rovno: the stirring story of Fritz Graebe, a German Christian who risked his life to lead hundreds of Jews to safety during the Holocaust, New York, Dodd, Mead, 1985 ISBN 0396087140 Wikimedia Foundation. 2010. Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную? 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