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Murder Story of Buczacz Jews at Baszty Hill
Murder Site
Bashty (Buczacz Area)
Poland
On June 26, 1943 some 100 Jews, the last survivors of the Buczacz ghetto, were taken to the new Jewish cemetery on the sides of Baszty Hill, 300 meters north of Buczacz and shot there. In the following days and weeks Ukrainian policemen caught more Jews who had succeeded in escaping the previous massacres, brought them there in groups, and murdered them.
In the first half of July 1943 all the Jews discovered by the Nazis in the city of Buczacz and in the vicinity, including those from the Podhajecka labor camp (located in the city), totaling some 1,800 people, were taken to Baszty Hill, ordered to undress, and shot dead.
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Written Testimonies
ChGK Soviet Reports
Mordechai Halpern, who lived in Buczacz during the war years testified:
On June 26, 1943 a fifth operation took place. One hundred more Jews were caught and murdered at the new cemetery on the outskirts of town in the direction of Baszty.
Mordechai Halpern, My Family and the City in its Flowering and Its Destruction, Petah Tikva, 2002, p. 51 (Hebrew).
Bashty (Buczacz Area)
hill
Murder Site
Poland
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Photos
Sketch from May 21, 1945, illustrating the murder sites of the Jews of Buczacz
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-75-371 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19988