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Murder Story of Nikolayev Jews in Temvod
Murder Site
Nikolayev Temvod
Ukraine (USSR)
Jews of all ages and both sexes who had apparently escaped the large-scale massacre of Nikolayev Jews in September 1941 but were apprehended later were taken in groups by truck to the Temvod suburb of Nikolayev and shot in pits near the banks of the Ingul River. The exact dates of these shootings are not known. According to some testimonies, they were carried out starting in October 1941. Unknown also are the total number of victims murdered at Temvod and the identity of the perpetrators of these massacres. The mass murders in the fall of 1941 were most likely carried out by members of Sonderkommando 11a and Einsatzkommando 12 of Einsatzgruppe D, which was stationed in Nikolayev at that time.
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Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports
From the Indictment of former chief of the Nikolayev Security Police, Obersturmfuehrer SS Hans Sandner, January 7, 1946:
… The Soviet people were arrested without any reason or pretext, tortured in gendarmerie and Gestapo cellars, shot, and hanged. A number of witnesses confirmed that innocent civilians who had been arrested were taken by covered truck to a high stone wall in the Temvod suburb, where they were shot in groups next to graves that had been prepared in advance. Living people were thrown into the graves together with the dead....
TsDAHOU, KYIV 57-4-267 copy YVA M.37 / 325
From the report of Dozortsev, an instructor of the 7th department of the political office of the 12th Army, October 30, 1941:
… I am relaying the account of Lieutenant Polishchuk and Lieutenant Antsiferov, who escaped from German captivity:
"We were captured on August 8 [1941], [and] were held in a camp at the outskirts of the city of Nikolayev. We saw Germans close by who were shooting Jews, entire families of them who had been brought there. There were very many women with children. From what we saw, a total of about 400 people were shot. The wounded adults and almost all of the children were thrown into the pits alive and [thus] buried...."
TsAMO, PODOLSK 32-11302-26-27-29 copy YVA M.40 / 114
Nikolayev Temvod
city district
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
46.958;32.017
Videos
Zhanna Medvedeva was born in 1933 in Nikolayev and lived there during the war years
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 49710 copy YVA O.93 / 49710