Artemivsk massacre

Artemivsk massacre
The "wailing wall" memorial to victims of the Artemivsk massacre (photographed 2019)
Location of Artemivsk (Bakhmut) within Ukraine
Also known as	Artemovsk massacre, Bakhmut's Babi Yar
Location	Artemivsk, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Bakhmut, Ukraine) 48°35′41″N 38°0′3″E / 48.59472°N 38.00083°E / 48.59472; 38.00083
Date	11 January 1942
Perpetrators	Einsatzgruppe C, Sonderkommando 4b
Victims	1,317–3,000

The Artemivsk massacre, also referred to as "Bakhmut's Babi Yar",^[1] was a 1942 massacre of the Jewish inhabitants of the city of Artemivsk, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (now Bakhmut, Ukraine). Somewhere between 1,200 (according to German reports) and 3,000 (according to Soviet numbers) Jews were killed or left to die within the city's alabaster mines.