One day, most probably in late August or early September 1941, a group of the remaining Jews of Pilyava, including women and children, were led on foot, under guard by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, toward the road leading from Pilyava to the town of Starokonstantinov. Shortly afterward, they were all shot dead by the Ukrainian policemen.
Testimony of Avraham Goltzman, born in Ostropol, Ukraine, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Starokonstantinov Ghetto
Life under the Soviet regime; German occupation; deportation to the Starokonstantinov Ghetto, March 1942; mass murder in an open field, Hanukkah (04 December) 1942; liberation.
Erection of a monument by Holocaust survivors; struggle to make aliya to Israel; aliya with his family, 1974.
Letter written by Chaya Bilyk in the Starokonstantinov Ghetto to her cousin Isaak Bilyk, a partisan, 16 January 1942
Murder of Jews from the Starokonstantinov Ghetto in the forest near Starokonstantinov, late 1941; loss of hope for rescue.
Also in the file:
Letter of testimony from Eduard Shaynevich, a relative, regarding the murder of the members of the Bilyk family, 1942.
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In August 1941, Germans brought several trucks of Jews from Starokonstantinov to the field near the cavalry barracks and, after humiliating them, took the sick and the elderly and shot them. The rest of the Jews were released back to the town.
On May 20, 1942, the Jews were ordered to assemble in the town square near the power plant, from where they were taken to the field near the cavalry barracks. The rest were forced to undress and, after taking out the specialists, the Germans made the Jews run onto logs placed over the ditch. While running across the logs, they were shot.
Partial list of Jews from Gritsev, Starokonstantinov, Ostropol, and Izyaslav, Ukraine, who were murdered, 1941-1945
The file also includes a letter with details of the murder of the Jews from Girtsev and the memorial stones placed near the murder location. The letter also mentions details of the murder of Jews from Ostropol, and Starakonstantinov, and the murder location and the memorial stones placed there.
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Memoirs of Isaak Bilyk, regarding his experiences in Gritsev and Starokonstantinov and his participation in underground activities in the Gritsev Ghetto during 1941-1942
Work as a teacher before the war;
Start of the war and riots among the population; sending of teachers from Gritsev and Slavutlich to labor digging trenches; arrival to Shepetovka and their return home following air-raids; German occupation of Gritsev; two Germans sleep in Isaak's home; one of the Germans is an SS man; claim by the SS man's driver that he is a member of the Communist Party (the driver's last name is Shnetke); rescue of...
Testimony of Lidia (Drel) Kleyman, born in Gritsev, Ukraine, 1931, regarding her experiences in the Gritsev Ghetto, Starokonstantinov Ghetto and with a partisan unit in forests
Outbreak of the war, summer 1941; attempt to escape; return to Gritsev with her family; anti-Jewish decrees; murder including drowning of Jews in a lake by Ukrainian policemen; murder of men in a forest near Gritsev in the first "Aktion", August 1941; rescue with her mother and toddler sister; life in the Gritsev Ghetto including murder in the Slavuta forests during the second "Aktion" in the autumn; transfer with those who were left...
Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding Nazi war crimes in Starokonstantinov in the Kamenets Podolsk region during the Nazi occupation period, dated, 24/03/1944
- Establishment of a POW camp in Starokonstantinov, summer 1942; Starokonstantinov POW camp life and living conditions, including disease and the burning of sick people while they are still alive; number of people who perished;
- Murder of Jews in the Starokonstantinov district; number of people in the Starokonstantinov district who perished; mass graves in the vicinity of Starokonstantinov, Novoye Mesto and...
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