Tarnopol Ghetto | |
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Ternopil in modern-day Ukraine (compare with above) | |
Location | Tarnopol, German-occupied Poland 49°20′N 25°22′E / 49.34°N 25.36°E |
Incident type | Imprisonment, forced labor, starvation, mass killings |
Organizations | Schutzstaffel (SS), Einsatzgruppe C, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, Wehrmacht |
Executions | Tarnopol cemeteries |
Victims | 20,000 Jews |
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]