Polevoye murder site,contemporary view. Photographer: Eugene Shnaider, 2012.
Genesis Philanthropy Group project, Copy YVA 14616089
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Murder Story of Dashev Jews in Polevoye
Murder Site
Polevoye
Ukraine (USSR)
On October 28, 1941 (in October-November, according to Soviet reports or in mid-December, according to the inscription on the monument commemorating the Holocaust victims from Dashev) the Jews of Dashev were ordered to assemble on the town's central square, after being told that they were going to be taken for agricultural work. All those who showed up were taken toward Polevoye village, near Dashev, to an anti-tank trench. There the victims were ordered to strip naked and to enter the trench, where they were shot to death in groups of several dozen people. An unknown number of Jews from the town of Kitaygorod were murdered together with the Jews of Dashev. The total number of victims of the massacre, perpetrated by members of Einsatzkommando 5 of Einsatzgruppe C and local auxiliary policemen, was about 800.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
Anna Smetanyuk, who was born in 1917 and lived in Polevoye during the war years, testified:
... For the whole time I lived in Polevoye village… In the fall of 1943 [sic, should be 1941] I saw with my own eyes [how] Germans shot two groups of Jews and were taking a third one [to be shot]. This group consisted of about 20 people not counting children. The children who were with them were of various ages. The Germans had abused them....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-54-1266 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19690; JM/19942
The ChGK report from Dashev
…The commission established the following facts: in October-November 1941 814 people of Jewish origin were shot by the German-Fascist occupiers and their accomplices. All of these civilians of Jewish origin were forced out of [their] apartments and taken, under a reinforced guard consisting of [German] gendarmes and [local auxiliary] policemen, to the territory of Polevoye village, Dashev County, to an anti-tank trench. There all of them were forced to take off their clothes and shoes and then, naked, were shot, while the small children were thrown alive [into the trench]…
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-54-1266 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19690; JM/19942
Polevoye
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Lidia Kaminskaya was born in 1933 in Dashev and lived there during the war years
YVA O.3 / VT/12812