Online Store Contact us About us
Yad Vashem logo

Murder Story of Kalanchak Jews in Odarik's House Courtyard

Murder Site
Courtyard of the Policeman Odarik
Ukraine (USSR)
In November 1941, two Jewish families of Kalanchak, the Eliashes and the Vasermans, numbered 8 people, among them 4 children, were murdered and buried in the village, in the courtyard of the house of a local auxiliary policeman named Odarik, who most likely was the perpetrator of the murder.
Related Resources
The ChGK report from Kalanchak
תעוד של הוועדה הממלכתית המיוחדת לחקר פשעי הנאצים בברית המועצות משנת 1944 על רצח ורדיפת תושבים בנפת Kalanchak
… On this day the Commission carried out an examination of the sites of atrocities committed by the German-Fascist occupiers. The examination established the following: …8 skulls were discovered in the courtyard of the [house of the] policeman Odarik. It was established by the testimony of… a witness that 8 members of two families, the Eliashes and the Vasermans, including 4 children up to the age of 15, were shot there in November 1941....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-77-412 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19992
Courtyard of the Policeman Odarik
חצר
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
46.264;33.282