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Cherny Ostrov

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Cherny Ostrov

Ukraine (USSR)

Jews began to settle in Cherny Ostrov in the early 18th century. In 1897, the town was home to 2,216 Jews, who made up seventy-nine percent of the total population. Under Soviet rule, Cherny Ostrov became the seat of a Jewish rural council. The town had a seven-year Yiddish school and a collective farm named Agrominimum. In 1939, there were 1,200 Jews in the town, comprising 29.4 percent of the total population. German troops occupied Cherny Ostrov on July 7, 1941. That same month, a ghetto was set up in the section of the town near the synagogue, and it was fenced off with barbed wire. The Jews were...

Cherny Ostrov, Ukraine (USSR)

Place

Cherny Ostrov

Kamenets Podolsk

Ukraine (USSR)

Murder Story of Cherny Ostrov Jews at the Cherny Ostrov Jewish Cemetery

Murder Site

Cherny Ostrov

Ukraine (USSR)

In 1942, twenty-six Jews were shot dead by gendarmes and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, under the command of Anatoliy Gruzitskiy, at the Jewish cemetery on the southern outskirts of the town. The killers shot the victims in the back of the skull, at point-blank range. The victims were buried in six pits.

Cherny Ostrov - Commemoration of Jewish Victims

Commemoration

After the war, a monument was erected at the Pavlikovetsky Forest murder site, to commemorate the Jewish victims from Cherny Ostrov and Felshtin.

Murder story of Cherny Ostrov Jews in the Pavlikovetsky Forest

Murder Site

Pavlikovtsy

Ukraine (USSR)

Early in the morning on Sabbath, September 12, 1942 – the eve of Rosh Hashanah – Ukrainian auxiliary policemen and some gendarmes surrounded the ghetto and drove its inmates out of their homes. After having been assembled, the Jews were taken in carts, under guard, into the Pavlikovetsky Forest, some sixteen kilometers southwest of the town, and shot dead in a nearby ravine. Anatoliy Gruzitskiy, the chief of the local Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, personally took part in this murder operation.