Holocaust by bullets in Ukraine
Dr. Boris Zabarko, the editor of a volume “Holocaust in Ukraine” and a former prisoner of the Shargorod ghetto, summarized: “In the Ukraine, starting with the first days of occupation, the Nazis immediately began intensive shooting of Jews…The testimonials of the witnesses and participants, as well as documents and media of those years, confirm that, without the collaboration of the local population, the Nazis would not ‘succeeded’ so well in the realization of their human hatred programme of the ‘Final Solution’ .“
Donna Rubinstein, one of two survivors of “the action” in Krasnostav , recount in her memoir horror of those tragic days:
“At daybreak on Friday (August 29, 1941) the people awoke and sow that the Ukrainian police were stationed in all the streets and alleys, not allowing anyone to pass. Anyone on the street was chased into the Club. German soldiers accompanied by Ukrainian police, both some-what drunk, entered houses. The soldiers shouted, “Juden raus!”. Some of them searched the houses. From the Club , the Jews were marched to the Huta Forest where graves had been dug the preceding night. When the Jews arrived at the forest of Guta (about 5 km from Krasnostav) an SS officer with a whip in his hand, ordered everyone to undress. " |
"The people stood together in family groups on boards covering the open graves. They kissed and said good-bye to each other. Nobody pleaded for mercy. People were lined up, pressed closely together and they were shot. A single bullet would do for several people. The dead and wounded fell from long boards into a mass grave at the present of cheering Nazis. They grabbed small children by their arms and threw them, dead and dying, into the grave. They covered up the graves but the soil heaved.”
Krasnostav’s two oldest “babushka” interviewed in the documentary “The Road to Krasnostav” are still remember solemn flock of Jews being escorting to Huta Forest.
Kharkov researcher A.I. Kruglov collected the painful statistics about the scope of the Holocaust by Bullets in Ukraine.
His book, “A Chronicle of Holocaust in Ukraine”, paints a horrifying picture of the total destruction of the Jewish population, and includes a day-by-day account of the murders and locations. The numbers below were calculated using the data in Mr. Kruglov’s book.
Krasnostav’s two oldest “babushka” interviewed in the documentary “The Road to Krasnostav” are still remember solemn flock of Jews being escorting to Huta Forest.
Kharkov researcher A.I. Kruglov collected the painful statistics about the scope of the Holocaust by Bullets in Ukraine.
His book, “A Chronicle of Holocaust in Ukraine”, paints a horrifying picture of the total destruction of the Jewish population, and includes a day-by-day account of the murders and locations. The numbers below were calculated using the data in Mr. Kruglov’s book.
During 1941-1944, about 1,500,000 Jews were murdered by German SS Einsatzgruppen Command, by special SS units formed from Ukrainian volunteers, and by local policemen.
In the period of June 22 - December 31, 1941, Germans and their local collaborators killed over 500,000 Jews. 2,590 people were perished every day.
September of 1941 was the most gruesome month:
137,000 Jews were slathered, 4,567 people per day on average.
Only for two days, September 29-30, 33,731 Jews were murdered at Kiev's Babi Yar,
which became the epitome of Nazi’s atrocities
In the period of June 22 - December 31, 1941, Germans and their local collaborators killed over 500,000 Jews. 2,590 people were perished every day.
September of 1941 was the most gruesome month:
137,000 Jews were slathered, 4,567 people per day on average.
Only for two days, September 29-30, 33,731 Jews were murdered at Kiev's Babi Yar,
which became the epitome of Nazi’s atrocities