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Unecha (), a town and the administrative center of Unechsky District in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, stands on the (within the Dnieper River's drainage basin) southwest of Bryansk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population:
Town status was granted in 1940.
From 1936 to 1951 Unecha was the home station for the Unecha motive branch of the Belarusian railway. From September 1943 to March 1944 the Directorate of the Belarusian railway was situated in the town.
Prior to World War II, about 12% of inhabitants were Jews. 1,708 Jews were living in Unecha. The town was occupied by the German army in the middle of August 1941. A large number of Jews managed to flee to the east before the Germans’ arrival. Shortly after the German occupation, the Jews were distinguished and forbidden to leave the town. In October 1941, all the Jews were confined to a closed ghetto, where they stayed until its liquidation in mid-March 1942. Due to harsh living conditions and hunger, many Jews died before the liquidation. Hundred of them were executed and group of Romani people from another village were murdered alongside the Jews on this day. The Germans also operated a forced labour battalion for Jews and the Dulag 121 transit prisoner-of-war camp in the town. (2025). 9780253060891, Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. ISBN 9780253060891
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