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Murder story of Tishkovka Jews in the Tishkovka Ravine
Murder Site
Tishkovka Area
Ukraine (USSR)
In the evening of January 6, 1942 Germans and local policemen surrounded the village of Tishkovka and raided the Jewish homes in order to collect the Jews in the center of the village. They were told to take their valuables and documents with them. Some sources say that the gendarmerie building was the collection point. During the early hours of January 7 the Jews were loaded onto trucks and taken outside the village to a nearby ravine. There the victims were forced to undress and were then shot to death in the ravine. Only two young people, a brother and a sister, managed to escape. The number of victims is estimated at 72; other sources mention members of 30 Jewish families. According to some sources the murder operation was carried out on May 6, 1942 near Medyshina village.
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Written Testimonies
Soviet Reports
From the testimony of Stepan Stromilo, who was recognized by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, and who was born in 1928 in Tishkovka village and lived there during the war years:
The year 1942 began. It was holy Christmas eve. The Germans began to collect the Jews and load them onto trucks.... All of them were taken outside Tishkovka village to where there was a deep ravine. There they were shot. Before that they were ordered to take their valuables with them (gold, money, documents) as if they were going to be relocated. The Germans and the policemen came to all the families and told them to pack their possessions and to head for the center, where trucks were waiting. Everyone assembled there and there was a lot of shouting. The children cried. The parents bit their hands and their children's hands as they already realized that they were going towards their death.… [But] before that they were forced to undress to their underwear. The local population did not see the shooting but they heard the sounds of shooting during the night. Thus, the Jews were collected in the evening and shot during the night.
From the book From Marina Mikhalchuk, ed., We Survived: The Kirovograd District and Kirovograd Residents during the Years of the Holocaust (Kirovograd, 2011), p.132-133 (Ukrainian)
Tishkovka Area
ravine
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
48.495;30.947