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Murder Story of Skadovsk Jews on the Black Sea Coast in Skadovsk

Murder Site
Skadovsk Area
Ukraine (USSR)
According to one of the German perpetrators, 15 Jews from Skadovsk – men, women and children – were shot outside the town, in the area of the Black Sea coast, in the fall of 1941. This massacre was perpetrated by members of Sonderkommando 10b of Einsatzgruppe D.
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From the judicial proceedings against Alois Persterer, former commander of Sonderkommando 10b; Munich, 1962:
May 16, 1962 From the interrogation of Karl Finger, a former member of Sonderkommando 10b: …In response to the question of whether SK [Sonderkommando] 10b carried out executions in Skadovsk, I would say not on a large scale. I can recall only one execution of Jews – in which, I believe, 15 people (men, women, and children) were shot outside the town, at the seaside.… The execution of the abovementioned 15 Jews [was carried out] under the command of [junior SS officer of Sonderkommando 10b] Wiesenberger, who had selected them [for execution] during a roundup in Skadovsk. I was involved in this execution: I may have been a marksman, or else I had to finish off the survivors. As far as I can remember, 2 or 3 other men were present, in addition to Wiesenberger and myself….
ZENTRALE STELLE, LUDWIGSBURG 162/982 (כרך 1); B 162/983 (כרך 2); B 162/984 (כרך 3); B 162/980 (כרך 4); B 162/985 (כרך 5); B 162/986 (כרך 6); B 162/987 (כרך 7); 162/988 (כרך 8);162/989 (כרך 9); B 162/990 (כרך 10); B 162/991 (כרך 11); B 162/992 (כרך 12) copy YVA TR.10 / 1158
Skadovsk Area
Seashore
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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