Murder story of Dnepropetrovsk Jews in the Monastyrskiy Forest

Early in December 1941 the military commander of Dnepropetrovsk ordered the Jews still living in the city to appear at the building of his office in order to be resettled. When only about 150 Jews appeared (they were then murdered on cliffs overlooking the Dnieper River, Germans and local auxiliary policemen were sent to drag the [other] Jews out of their houses. The Jews assembled in this way were taken to the Monastyrskiy Forest, five kilometers from the city and shot there, apparently by members of the Sonderkommando unit commanded by the chief of the Kremenchug security police office, Karl Julius Plath. The latter reported that his unit killed several thousand Jews.