Lubny, Ukraine, German soldiers standing next to Jewish women and children at the assembly point, 16/10/1941.

The Jews of Lubny and the surrounding area were ordered to gather with their personal belongings on 16/10/1941. They were led to a site out of town and were murdered on the same day. The Sonderkommando killed on that day 1,363 victims including Jews, communists, partisans, and 53 POWs. This photograph is one in a series taken by the Germany Army photographer Haehle, member of the PK - propaganda commando. He was recruited to the Sixth Division that fought in the Ukraine. He died in the beginning of 1944. In the 1950's his widow sold the photograph collection to the wife of the Brazilian journalist, Hans Georg Schulz. Black and white copies of the original color photographs were transferred to the lawyer Herr Wagner who worked in Landserichtsrat. Wagner researched war crimes connected to Sonderkommando activities in the cities of Kiev and Lubny during the autumn of 1941. Copies of the photographs were used as evidence in important trials. In the year 2000 Mrs. Schulz sold the original photographs to the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.