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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 Royal Hungarian Army 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]
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(help) Also in: Martin Davis (2010). "The Nazi Invasion of Kamenets". JewishGen.