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Murder Story of Kitaygorod Jews in Polevoye

Murder Site
Polevoye
Ukraine (USSR)
Murder site of Kitaygorod's and Dashev's Jews. Photographer: Eugene Shnaider, 2012.
Murder site of Kitaygorod's and Dashev's Jews. Photographer: Eugene Shnaider, 2012.
Genesis Philanthropy Group project, Copy YVA 14616101
In late October 1941 an unknown number of Jews of Kitaygorod were sent to the county seat Dashev. There they were murdered on October 28 (or in October-November, according to some Soviet reports), together with local Jews, in anti-tank trenches in Polevoye village next to Dashev by members of Einsatzkommando 5 of Einsatzgruppe C and by auxiliary policemen. In early 1942 another group of Kitaygorod Jews was taken to Dashev and murdered, apparently also at Polevoye, by German rural and local auxiliary policemen. According to the testimony of one non-Jewish resident of Kitaygorod a total of 180 Jews of all ages and both sexes were taken to and killed in Dashev.
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From the Testimony of Filip Vovk, who was born in 1902:
תעוד הוועדה הממלכתית המיוחדת לחקר פשעי הנאצים בברית המועצות, 1945-1943 על פשעים שבוצעו באזור DASHEV, מחוז VINNITSA, אוקראינה
…[I]n late 1941 and early 1942 the Germans took all the Jews who were living in Kitaygorod village and brought them to the county seat Dashev, where they shot all of them. There were about 180 Jews. They were shot 100 meters outside the village of Dashev and buried in pits at this location…
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-54-1266 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19690; JM/19942
Polevoye
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
48.999;29.448
Murder site of Kitaygorod's and Dashev's Jews. Photographer: Eugene Shnaider, 2012.
Murder site of Kitaygorod's and Dashev's Jews. Photographer: Eugene Shnaider, 2012.
Genesis Philanthropy Group project, Copy YVA 14616101