Murder Story of Verkhovka Jews in Migalevtsy

On August 19 or 20 (according to different testimonies), 1942 Jews from Verkhovka, mainly women, elderly people, and children who were deported to the Yaltushkov ghetto were assembled by members of the German Security Police from Kamenets-Podolsk and local Ukrainian auxiliaries at the market square of Yaltushkov, together with about 450 other ghetto inmates. They were told they were going to Palestine, but were driven to a pit dug in advance in a field several kilometers north of Yaltushkov, near Migalevtsy village, and shot dead there. Several able-bodied Verkhovka Jews were spared during this massacre and sent to the labor camp in Guli. The very few Jews from Verkhovka who survived the August 1942 massacre were murdered on October 15, 1942, in a murder operation in which the number of victims (according to Soviet reports) was about 1,200.