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Students and teachers mark the official establishment of the Hebrew school in Eyshishok

Eyshishok: The Annihilation of a Jewish Community

Nazi Germany and its allies and collaborators perpetrated mass shooting operations targeting Jews in occupied eastern Europe. This is sometimes known as the Holocaust by bullets. About 2 million Jews were murdered in these mass shootings and associated massacres. In this way, German authorities destroyed Jewish communities in more than 1,500 villages, towns, and cities in eastern Europe. Eyshishok was one of these communities.