Klochanka River Related Communities
# Follow us
Languages
English
ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST
RESEARCH & COLLECTIONS
COMMEMORATION
EDUCATION & E-LEARNING
MUSEUMS & EXHIBITIONS
RIGHTEOUS
Murder story of Nagartava Jews in the Klochanka River
Murder Site
Klochanka River (Nagartava)
Ukraine (USSR)
A number of Jews of Nagartav who on September 13, 1941 were ordered to appear at the local club allegedly for to be registered, were separated from the other Jews and marched along the village's central street to a ravine close to the bank of the river that flowed through the village. There all of them were shot dead. The perpetrators of the massacre were apparently members of Sonderkommando 12a of Einsatzgruppe D and local Ukrainian auxiliary policemen.
Related Resources
Written Testimonies
ChGK Soviet Reports
From the memoirs of M.Ya. Bibe:
…The "peaceful" life of Nagartav's inhabitants continued until September 13 [1941]. On that day they were assembled to be shot. They gathered all the inhabitants of Nagartav, about one thousand people, in the building of the former people's house, which held 400 people….
On September 14 they took [the Jews] to be shot in different parts of the colony… at the end of the main street close to the Nagartav River....
YVA O.33 / 2871
Klochanka River (Nagartava)
river
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
47.304;32.859
Videos
Abram Ruskol was born in 1919 in Nagartav and lived there through the war years
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 47416 copy YVA O.93 / 47416