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Murder Story of Ulanov Jews at the Ulanov Polish Cemetery

Murder Site
Ulanov
Ukraine (USSR)
On the morning of June 10, 1942, some 1,400 Jews from the Ulanov Ghetto, including some residents of Salnitsa who had been deported to Ulanov, were taken by the Germans, with the assistance of local policemen, to the area of the town’s Polish cemetery. Some 250 Jews were taken from there to the Kalinovka labor camp, where they were forced to build an airfield. At the cemetery, the rest of the Jews were taken to pits, where they were forced to undress. They were then shot dead in groups. The shooting lasted several days, ending on June 14, by which point about 450 teenagers had been shot. Afterward, local people were forced to cover the pits. The last murder operation at the Polish cemetery apparently took place in December 1942, and it claimed the lives of the remaining 150 Jews.
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The article "In the Village of Ulanov, the Germans Massacred 2,000 Jews" by the Yiddish writer Fayvel Sito, which was sent by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to the Jewish Fund in London.
Fanya Troyanovskaya, a resident of the village of Ulanov, the Vinnitsa District, related how the fascist killers had annihilated the Jewish population of Ulanov. The war found Troyanovskaya in Odessa, in a sanatorium. On June 27, 1941, she left for home, but she didn’t get as far as Khmelnik, since the railway line had been cut eighteen kilometers from Ulanov. Troyanovskaya reached Kalinovka, near Ulanov. It was impossible to go any further. There, she fell into the hands of the Germans. They arrested her and took her to a nearby concentration camp. There, she met her 63-year old father Girsh Troyanovskiy and other residents of Ulanov. Fanya Troyanovskaya spent three weeks at this concentration camp. Thanks to her good fortune, she managed to escape and join the partisans. Troyanovskaya was sent by the partisan unit to reconnoiter the nearby villages of Filiopol, Khmelnik, etc. She also succeeded in reaching the Ulanov Ghetto and extricating two Red Army commanders, whom the Jews had hidden in the ghetto. Fanya Troyanovskaya related the following about the liquidation of the Jewish population of the village of Ulanov: "First, a special order by the Nazis forced all the Jews into a ghetto, which consisted of several dilapidated houses on the outskirts of the village. Two thousand people were herded into them. The ghetto was surrounded with barbed wire, and the Jews, regardless of age, were forced to perform heavy labor. Soon, the preordained murder of the Jews began. Groups of them were taken to the Polish cemetery and shot there. This happened three times. On August 10 [actually, on June 10], 1942, the first mass shooting took place. On that day, 1,400 Jews were shot at the Polish cemetery. Five days later, on August [sic for June] 15, all the children and young people aged 12-18, a total of 450, were shot. The third time, on December 15, 1942, the Germans shot all the remaining Jews, 150 of them." At the cemetery, the fascist murderers forced the people to strip naked and stand at the edge of a pit, or lie face down inside it; then they shot them. All their possessions were loaded onto a truck and taken to the Gestapo office.
GARF, MOSCOW R-8114-1-44 copy YVA M.35 / JM/26088
Ulanov
cemetery
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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David Fishman was born in 1929 in Ulanov and lived there during the war years
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 51316 copy YVA O.93 / 51316
Elizaveta Gelfond was born in 1924 in Ulanov and lived there during the war years
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 29097 copy YVA O.93 / 29097