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Murder Story of Dnepropetrovsk Jews at the Dnieper Cliffs
Murder Site
Dnieper Cliffs
Ukraine (USSR)
Early in December 1941 the military commander of Dnepropetrovsk issued an order to all Jews to assemble at the commandant's office building. The Jews were told they were going to be resettled. Only 150 Jews appeared on the appointed day. They were taken to cliffs overlooking the Dnieper River and shot with machine-guns. The perpetrators of this massacre were apparently members of Sonderkommando "Plath",which was named after its commander, chief of the Kremenchug security police office, Karl Julius Plath, and were subordinate to the Higher SS and Police Leader "South."
Related Resources
Soviet Reports
The intelligence detachment of the NKVD reported to the Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Nikita Khrushchev:
... In the city of Dnepropetrovsk the city commandant issued an order early in December 1941 that all of Jewish population should appear with their belongings at the building of commandant's office in order to be sent to a new place of residence. According to the testimony of city residents, no more than 150 adults and children followed the order. Those who showed up were taken on foot to the Dnieper. There they were lined up on a cliff above the Dnieper and shot with machine-guns....
TsDAHOU, KYIV 1-23-124 copy YVA M.37 / 116
Dnieper Cliffs
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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