How was Skala’s Jewish population destroyed?

In December 1941, the Skala council selected 50 people for forced labor in Chortkiv, and further quotas were imposed for Borki in February 1942. In April, men were ordered to report in Borshchiv and 84 were taken to a labor camp. [event_candidate_83be233b729240ed7519d9d9] [event_candidate_09551b6252aed32a7320b8cf] [event_candidate_c10e69fefb950cefb1b927e1]

The memorial book describes arrests, marked Jewish homes, and the Skala action that began at six in the morning on September 26, 1942. Jews were captured, deported, and killed; transports from Skala went to Belzec, where women, elderly people, and children were sent to the extermination camp. [event_candidate_932907acf5526b0d039b94a0] [event_candidate_4004a7e0c55b3a96a6aee120] [event_candidate_35e578da489e264958e6a7f7] [event_candidate_d814699095558adfd0603463]

The remaining Jews of Skala were deported to Borshchiv for destruction, while other accounts describe a major Aktion that killed more than half the town’s inhabitants. These accounts show that deportation and mass murder dismantled the community’s population, families, and institutions. [event_candidate_400f398623832f20333f40be] [event_candidate_1ae2d7e67feff9e6ad817247] [mention_821883ef392dc8c01e6e1b1d]

The book records named Skala residents who died or were murdered at Barki, including Zeide Goldshitz, Eliyahu Eugenblik, Hirsch Shindler, Mordechai Wiesenthal, Shlomo Klein, and Benzion Kriegsfeld. It also recounts the killing of Shalom Grinberg’s father, sister, and nineteen other Skala Jews in 1944. [event_candidate_932907acf5526b0d039b94a0] [event_candidate_0d1f7b0ca60c84f743e6f1e2] [event_candidate_37ad436ef9f9faa2663da313]