The area of the former the 7th site. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2016.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615757
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Murder Story of Belaya Tserkov Jews at the Seventh Site
Murder Site
Seventh Site
Ukraine (USSR)
At least 1,000 Jews of Belaya Tserkov were taken in the second half of August 1941 to the camp for Soviet prisoners of war on Krasnoarmeyskaya Street (in early 1942 this camp was designated POW base camp No.334 or Stalag 334). There, in a specially fenced off area known as the Seventh Site the Jews were shot to death at trenches by members of a detachment of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C. The murder of the Jews at this place continued through the rest of 1941 and 1942, when often groups of several hundred Jews were taken from the prison run by the security police. It is impossible to determine the total number of Jews who were shot to death at the Seventh Site.
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From the article “In Belaya Tserkov”:
… Construction work had previously been carried out on the outskirts of the city - this was the so-called “Seventh Site.” Under the Germans this site became a place of mass murders. There the fascist executioners shot to death tens of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war. There were many women, elderly people, and small children among those murdered. The doomed ones were taken to the “Seventh Site” by truck. The bodies of those shot were thrown into deep pits about 100 meters long. The Germans were “saving space”: they would put down a layer of bodies, cover them lightly with earth, and then put down the next layer….
Pravda, January 6, 1944 (Russian)
Seventh Site
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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The area of the former the 7th site. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2016.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615757