Murder Story of Kozelets Jews at the Kozelets Brick Factory

Einsatzgruppe C, Kiev Operational Situation Report USSR No. 135 from November 19, 1941 ... In the course of systematic mopping-up operations and the complete rounding-up of all Jews and Communists in the neighborhood of Kiev, Sonderkommando 4a dispached a number of Teilkommandos, who were able to complete their assignments without any difficulties in cooperation with the local commanders of the German Army. Thus, on October 22, 1941, at Koselets [sic], apart from 11 Communists and partisans who were handed over by the German Army, 125 Jews were executed. They were the survivors of a population which, before the war, had numbered over 2,000. On this occasion, the Ukrainian militia, recruited at Koselets, made itself useful in the round-up by recruiting the required manpower to dig mass graves....