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Murder Story of Oster Jews at the Oster Airfield
Murder Site
Oster
Ukraine (USSR)
On October 29, 1941, 215 residents of Oster – including Jews, partisans, and Communist Party activists – were taken out of the town by Sonderkommando 4a and led to the local airfield, where they were shot. Another thirty Jews and partisans were shot by the same Sonderkommando in the same location on November 7, 1941.
Related Resources
German Reports / Romanian Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports
From the Einsatzgruppen reports
Operational Situation Report USSR No. 135
Einsatzgruppe C …
On October 29, 1941, in Oster, 215 Jews, partisans, as well as a few functionaries of the Communist Party, were arrested and executed.…
Arad, Yitzhak, Krakowski, Shmuel and Spector, Shmuel. The Einsatzgruppen reports : selections from the dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' campaign against the Jews July 1941-January 1943 . New York : Holocaust Library, 1989, p. 239.
From the Einsatzgruppen reports
Operational Situation Report USSR No. 143
Einsatzgruppe C.… On their way back to Kiev, the same Kommando, on the same day [November 7, 1941], shot 120 Jews in Dymer and thirty Jews and partisans in Oster. In cooperation with the German Army, this action was carried out without incident.…
Arad, Yitzhak, Krakowski, Shmuel and Spector, Shmuel. The Einsatzgruppen reports : selections from the dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' campaign against the Jews July 1941-January 1943 . New York : Holocaust Library, 1989, p. 251.
Oster
Airfield
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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