Rovno Ghetto
| Rovno Ghetto | |
|---|---|
Location of Sosenki (Сосонки) Forest massacres of the Rovno Ghetto prisoners, 2014 | |
Ghetto's location at Rovno (Równe in pre-war eastern Poland) | |
Rivne in modern-day Ukraine | |
| Location | Near Rivne in western Ukraine (Równe in pre-war eastern Poland) 50°37′N 26°15′E / 50.617°N 26.250°E |
| Date | October 1941 |
| Incident type | Forced labor, mass shootings |
| Perpetrators | Einsatzgruppe C, Order Police battalions, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police |
| Organizations | SS |
| Ghetto | 5,200 to 7,000 Jews |
| Victims | about 23,000 Jews |
The Rovno Ghetto (also: Równe or Rivne Ghetto, Yiddish: ראָװנע) was a World War II Nazi ghetto established in December 1941 in the city of Rovno, western Ukraine, in the territory of German-administered Reichskommissariat Ukraine. On 6 November 1941, about 21,000 Jews were massacred by Einsatzgruppe C and their Ukrainian collaborators. The remaining Jews were imprisoned in the ghetto. In July 1942, the remaining 5,000 Jews were trucked to a stone quarry near Kostopol and murdered there.
The ghetto was liquidated on July 13, 1942. Only a handful of Jews managed to escape deportation.