Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre
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Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre | |
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Location | Kamianets-Podilskyi |
Date | August 27–28, 1941 |
Perpetrators | Friedrich Jeckeln Einsatzgruppen Police Battalion 320 Ukrainian Auxiliary Police |
Victims | 23,600 Hungarian and Ukrainian Jews |
The Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre was a World War II mass shooting of Jews carried out in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa, by the German Police Battalion 320 along with Friedrich Jeckeln's Einsatzgruppen,[1] Hungarian soldiers, and the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police. The killings were conducted on August 27 and August 28, 1941, in the Soviet city of Kamianets-Podilskyi (now Ukraine), occupied by German troops in the previous month on July 11, 1941.[2] According to the Nazi German reports a total of 23,600 Jews were murdered, including 16,000 who had earlier been expelled from Hungary.[3]
History
The city of Kamianets-Podilskyi (Kam'yanets'-Podil's'kyy), now in south-western
The Hungarians loaded the Jews into freight cars and took them to Kőrösmező (now Yasinia, Ukraine), near the prewar Hungarian-Polish border, where they were transferred across the former Soviet border and handed over to the Germans. By August 10, 1941, approximately 14,000 Jews had been deported from Hungary to German-controlled territory. Once in German hands, the Jews, often still in family units, were forced to march from Kolomyia to Kamianets-Podilskyi.
On August 27 and 28, a detachment of
See also
- Einsatzgruppen
- Friedrich Jeckeln
- Media related to Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre at Wikimedia Commons
References
- ISBN 978-0465002399.
- ^ Martin Davis. "Kamyanets-Podilskyy" (PDF). pp. 11-14 / 24 in PDF – via direct download.
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(help) Also in: Martin Davis (2010). "The Nazi Invasion of Kamenets". JewishGen. - ISBN 0814326919.
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- ^ Yad Vashem (2016). "Goering orders Heydrich to prepare the plan for the Final Solution of the Jewish Problem". The Holocaust Timeline 1940-1945. The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority. Archived from the original on July 15, 2018. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
- ^ Desbois, Patrick (2009). "Places of Massacres by German Task Forces between 1941 - 1943" (PDF). Germany: TOS Gemeinde Tübingen. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 9, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
Further reading
- Eisen, George (2022). A Summer of Mass Murder: 1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust. Purdue University Press. ISBN 978-1-61249-777-8.
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