Murder story of Nikolayev Jews in the Voskresenskoye Ravine

On September 14, 1941 all the Jews of Nikolayev were ordered to assemble two days later at the Jewish cemetery, in the Slobodka neighborhood. The Jews were told they were going to be resettled. The collection of the Jews started on September 16 and continued until September 18, 1941. On September 21 the Jews started to be taken by truck to the area of the villages of Voskresenskoye, Kalinovka, Gorokhovka, and Meshkovo-Pogorelovo, about 10 kilometers east of Nikolayev. First the able-bodied Jewish men were taken away, under the pretext of their being needed to prepare for the resettlement, then the women and children. The victims were taken in groups of 35-40 to a ravine, were forced to strip, and then shot by members of Sonderkommando 11a, Einsatzkommando 12, and Sonderkommando 10a of Einsatzgruppe D and of the 9th Reserve Police Battalion attached to Einsatzgruppe D. The massacre, which lasted for three days from dawn until dusk, claimed the lives of about 5,000 victims.