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Murder Story of Vinkovtsy Jews in Tatarinka
Murder Site
Tatarinka
Ukraine (USSR)
In the summer of (or, according to a ChGK document, on April 14) 1942 1,875 Jews from Vinkovtsy (apparently, including some from the surround area) were driven out of their homes in the ghetto by Ukrainian policemen, collected at the town square, and then taken under guard by Ukrainian policemen to the shooting site. They were made to take off their clothes and were shot to death in a field in the vicinity of the town, near Tatarinka village. On August 6, 1942 an SD murder squad from Kamenets-Podolsk shot to death, apparently at the same location, the few Jews who had remained in the Vinkovtsy ghetto.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports from Vinkovtsy
We, the undersigned… established the fact that during the German occupation, on April 14, 1942, on the outskirts of Tatarinka village, Vonkovtsy County, … 1,875 civilian residents of Vonkovtsy [Vinkovtsy]… were shot to death by the Germans. The shooting was carried out on the orders of [Eduard] Eggers, Gebietskommissar of Dunayevtsy, and of Busse, the head of the Vinkovtsy Gendarmerie.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-64-795 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19710
From the interrogation of Alexander Ogorodnik, who was serving in the Ukrainian auxiliary police in Dunayevtsy during the German occupation
... In the summer of 1942 I actively participated in the shooting of about 1,000 Soviet civilians in the town of Vinkovtsy, where I went together with a group of [Ukrainian] policemen from Dunayevtsy. My participation consisted of being part of the cordon guarding the town of Vinkovtsy, when the Jews had been collected in one place so they couldn't escape. Then I took this column under guard to the shooting site and also guarded them so that they also couldn't escape from near the pit where the shooting was carried out....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-64-795 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19710
From the interrogation of Ivan Kirpichnyi, who was serving in the Ukrainian auxiliary police in Dunayevtsy during the German occupation
… Approximately in August 1942 I went to the town of Vinkovtsy for the shooting of Soviet civilians, but I didn't participate in the shooting since by the time of my arrival at the murder site the shooting had ended. About two hours later I went back [to Dunayevtsy].
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-64-795 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19710
Tatarinka
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
49.033;27.233
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Sheiva Khusid was born in Vinkovtsy in 1926 and was living there during the war years
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 29775 copy YVA O.93 / 29775