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Murder Story of Staraya Sinyava Jews at the Sugar Refinery in Staraya Sinyava
Murder Site
Sugar Refinery in Staraya Sinyava
Ukraine (USSR)
On August 19, 1941, upon the orders of Friedrich Jeckeln, the Higher SS and Police Leader in the south, some 300 Jews from Staraya Sinyava – men, women, and children – were taken to a long ditch located some 500 meters north of the local sugar refinery, where there was an unfinished bunker, and shot dead by a unit of Einsatzgruppe C. Some of the victims were buried alive.
During the summer of 1943, Jews who had been caught hiding in Staraya Sinyava were likewise killed at that ditch.
Related Resources
German Reports / Romanian Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports
From the Einsatzgruppen Reports
September 17, 1941
Operational Situation Report USSR No. 86
Einsatzgruppe C … The office of the Higher SS and Police Leader [Friedrich Jeckeln] took care of a total of 511 Jews in actions in Pilva [sic for Pilyava] and Stara-Sieninva [sic for Staraya Sinyava].
Arad, Yitzhak, Krakowski, Shmuel and Spector, Shmuel. The Einsatzgruppen reports : selections from the dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' campaign against the Jews July 1941-January 1943 . New York : Holocaust Library, 1989, p. 136.
Sugar Refinery in Staraya Sinyava
Sugar Refinery
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Photos
The murder site area
YVA, Photo Collection, 3928/3