Murder site of the former shooting range in Belaya Tserkov. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2018.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615637
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Murder Story of Belaya Tserkov Jews on Aleksandriyskii Avenue in Belaya Tserkov
Murder Site
Aleksandriyskii Avenue in Belaya Tserkov
Ukraine (USSR)
On August 19, 1941 the Jews of Belaya Tserkov were ordered by the military commandant of the city to come to his office, supposedly to be registered. The assembled Jews were taken by a detachment of secret field police to the northwestern outskirts of the city. There they were initially put into a small building, then the adults were taken in small groups to pits near the shooting range in the vicinity of the camp for Soviet POWs on Aleksandriyskii Avenue (today the 50th Anniversary of Victory Avenue). The victims were forced to kneel at the edge of the pit and then were shot in the back of the head by members of a detacment of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C. Some of the children whose parents had been shot earlier that day were taken by truck to the same pits and shot to death there. According to Soviet data, a total of about 5,000 Jews from Belaya Tserkov were shot at that place.
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From the article “The SD Do Terrible Things. Witnesses in the Kommando-Trial relating to the Belaya Tserkov Complex [body of evidence] ”:
…The last witness…was 45-year-old Franz Paul Kohler from Weissenburg, [who] in August 1941 [was] a member of a radio company of the 295th Infantry Division. One morning, while he was just outside Belaya Tserkov, he heard a kind of explosion which he was unfamiliar with but which, after some time, was repeated. Wanting to know what had happened, he arrived at an open area with high visibility where, from the distance of 80 to 100 meters, he saw people falling over and disappearing. When he came closer, he observed that this was the execution of groups of 10 persons each.
He went there again in the afternoon, when there was no longer any shooting, and looked into the pit. “It was a horrible sight.” He talked to one of the SS men standing there who told him that there was a Fuehrer’s order to shoot Jews age 14 to 60. "And what about children?" [he asked]. “They were to be shot by Ukrainian militiamen”…
Darmstädter Echo , March 26, 1968 (German)
Aleksandriyskii Avenue in Belaya Tserkov
street
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
49.798;30.115
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Murder site of the former shooting range in Belaya Tserkov. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2018.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615637