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Murder Story of Kamenets Podolsk Jews at the Kamenets Podolsk Jewish Cemetery

Murder Site
Kamenets Podolsk
Ukraine (USSR)
One day in the summer of 1942 all able-bodied Jews from the ghetto of Kamenets Podolsk were taken out to work. After they left, about 800 children and old people who remained in the ghetto were taken by truck and on foot to the Jewish cemetery on the northeastern outskirts of Kamenets Podolsk. There they all were shot by members of the Kamenets Podolsk branch of the security police and SD head quarters, the 1st Police Cavalry Detachment, and local auxiliary police. According to eyewitnesses, approximately 300 more Jews of all ages and both sexes were shot there at the end of 1942.
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Nikolai Mikhailovskiy, who was born in 1888 and lived in Kamenets Podolsk during the war years, testified:
...In 1942 I saw children, women, and men being taken to the Jewish cemetery. There were few men [still alive] since the carts moving behind [the people] were carrying many men who had already been murdered. A total of about 300 people could be counted. They were forced to completely undress and to roll in the snow for about 20-30 minutes. Then they were ordered to, one by one, approach the grave, where they were met by a bullet. They then fell into the grave. Little children were thrown in alive, as if they were balls...All this was carried out by a German murder squad...
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-64-799 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19711
The ChGK report from Kamenets Podolsk
...On the northeastern outskirts of the city is located a Jewish cemetery where they shot the Jews from the ghetto; their bodies are buried in 53 graves. A total of 16 graves have been opened, 4 of which measured between 10 and 30 square meters, the rest were of the usual size and in each of them 2 to 5 bodies were discovered. From grave no. 1 (that measured 10 square meters) 43 skulls with bullet wounds but without [further] mutilation were exhumed. On the basis of the size of the skulls' bones and the number of teeth, it may be assumed that bodies of children who were age 2 to 12 were buried in this place. 37 skulls of adults and children were exhumed from the grave no. 2 (measuring 30 square meters), some of the children's skulls did not have signs of any damage. Separate bones and skulls with gun-shot wounds were exhumed from the graves nos. 3 and 4 (which measured 15 square meters each)...
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-64-799 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19711
Kamenets Podolsk
Jewish cemetery
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
48.683;26.585
Bina Tenenblat, who was born in 1928 in Kamenets Podolsk and lived there during the war years, testified:
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 33150 copy YVA O.93 / 33150