Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre

Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre
Jews marched through Kamenets to their execution site on the outskirts of town
LocationKamianets-Podilskyi
DateAugust 27–28, 1941
PerpetratorsFriedrich Jeckeln
Einsatzgruppen
Police Battalion 320
Royal Hungarian Army
Ukrainian Auxiliary Police
Victims23,600 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]

  1. ^ Timothy Snyder (2010). Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books. pp. 200–204. ISBN 978-0465002399.
  2. ^ Martin Davis. "Kamyanets-Podilskyy" (PDF). pp. 11-14 / 24 in PDF – via direct download. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) Also in: Martin Davis (2010). "The Nazi Invasion of Kamenets". JewishGen.
  3. ^ Randolph L. Braham (2000). The Politics of Genocide. Wayne State University Press. p. 34. ISBN 0814326919.