Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

Рівне
Rivne
Röwne
Równe
Ровно
Rovno
ראוונע

On June 28, 1941, Rivne Рівне was captured by the Germans, who later established the city as the administrative centre of Reichskommissariat Ukraine.
Between November 6-8, 1941, about 23,000 Jews were taken to a pine grove in Sosenki and killed.
Christopher R. Browning cites HSSPF z.b.V. Korsemann worked with BdO Oelhafen to organize the murder of at least 17,000 Jews in Rivne Рівне , in November, 1941, by Police Battalions 69, 315 and 320, together with Ostlandkompanie and a detachment of Ek 5. The Rivne Рівне County Commissioner, Werner Beer, had initiated the registration of all Jews without papers in Rivne Рівне, and was fully briefed on the killings
The Rivne Рівне Ghetto was established for the remaining 5,000 Jews.

In July, 1942, the population of the Rivne Рівне Ghetto was sent some 70 kilometres north to Kostopil, where they were killed, and the ghetto was subsequently liquidated.