Solved case · 1941
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In August 1941, German police and Einsatzgruppen units, together with Hungarian soldiers and Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, murdered an estimated 23,600 Jews in and around Kamianets-Podilskyi, in what is now Ukraine, including thousands of Jews deported from Hungary days earlier.
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Suggest coverage for Kamianets-Podilskyi massacreThe Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre was a mass shooting of Jews carried out on August 27 and 28, 1941, in the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, then part of the Ukrainian SSR and occupied by German forces from July 11, 1941. It occurred during the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union launched on June 22, 1941.
The killings followed a chain of deportations from Hungary. After Hungary entered the war against the Soviet Union on June 27, 1941, Hungarian authorities began deporting foreign Jews living in Hungary, most of them Polish and Russian Jews, along with refugees from western Europe. Jews unable to readily prove Hungarian citizenship were also targeted, and entire Jewish communities, particularly in the Subcarpathia region then under Hungarian administration, were deported. Hungarian officials transported these Jews by freight car to Kőrösmező (now Yasinia, Ukraine), near the former Czechoslovak-Polish border, where they were handed over to German custody. By August 10, 1941, roughly 14,000 Jews had been deported from Hungary into German-controlled territory. Once in German hands, the deportees, often still with their families, were forced to march from Kolomyia to Kamianets-Podilskyi.
On August 27 and 28, 1941, a detachment of Einsatzgruppen operating in Kamianets-Podilskyi, together with troops under the command of Higher SS and Police Leader Friedrich Jeckeln, German Police Battalion 320, Hungarian soldiers, and the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, carried out the mass murder of the city's entire Jewish community, encompassing both the recent deportees and long-resident local Jews. According to Jeckeln's own report, a total of 23,600 Jews were killed in this operation, including approximately 16,000 who had earlier been expelled from Hungary.
This massacre is documented as one of the first large-scale mass-murder operations carried out in pursuit of the Final Solution within Reichskommissariat Ukraine. It followed earlier killing operations in Zhytomyr, which began on July 9, 1941, and continued until September 19, in which German and Ukrainian police killed approximately 10,000 Jews. It preceded the killing of 28,000 Jews in Vinnytsia on September 22, 1941, and the massacre of 33,771 Jews at Babi Yar on September 29, 1941. By the end of 1941, between 500,000 and 900,000 Jews had been killed across the region as part of the broader campaign of mass murder during the German occupation.
German forces launch Operation Barbarossa, invading the Soviet Union, including the Ukrainian SSR.
Hungary enters the war against the Soviet Union; Hungarian authorities begin deporting foreign Jews living in Hungary.
Kamianets-Podilskyi is occupied by German troops.
Approximately 14,000 Jews have been deported from Hungary into German-controlled territory by this date.
Mass shooting of Jews in Kamianets-Podilskyi begins, carried out by Einsatzgruppen, German Police Battalion 320, Hungarian soldiers, and Ukrainian Auxiliary Police under Friedrich Jeckeln's command.
Mass shooting operation concludes; according to Jeckeln's report, a total of 23,600 Jews were murdered.
A related mass shooting in Vinnytsia kills 28,000 Jews.
The Babi Yar massacre kills 33,771 Jews near Kyiv.
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Higher SS and Police Leader for the southern region who commanded troops that carried out the massacre; his after-action report is the source of the widely cited casualty figure of 23,600.[3]
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