Kamenka Shevchenkovskaya Related Murder Sites
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Murder story of Kamenka Shevchenkovskaya Jews in the Zagayko Forest
Murder Site
Zagayko
Ukraine (USSR)
At the beginning of 1942 (according to some sources in February) the inmates of the ghetto in Kamenka Shevchenkovskaya were put on carts and taken to the vicinity of Aleksandrovka. There they saw carts in which Aleksandrovka policemen were also taking Jews to be shot. With the participation of the policemen from Aleksandrovka all the Jews were taken to the Zagayko Forest. After they were stripped naked, in groups the Jews were forced to faceinto the edge [of the ravine]. The children were shot together with the adults. The total number of victims is estimated as having been 350-400.
Related Resources
Soviet Reports
The Soviet report from Kamenka Shevchenkovskaya
The accused […] also confirmed other facts about the mass shootings perpetuated in February 1942 by the police of Kamenka and Aleksandrovka in the vicinity of Zagayko Forest, where more than 400 Soviet civilians of Jewish origin -- men, women, and children -- were shot.
DAKO, KROPYVNYTSKYI R-6656-2-1 copy YVA M.52 / 511
Zagayko
forest
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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