Murder Story of Buki Jews at the Buki Cemetery

November 8, 1941 Activity Report of the Commander of the 50th Royal Hungarian Battalion Major Sakh: The Company, that had been sent, arrived in Buki on November 2, 1941 at 12:15 pm…On November 5, 1941 the locality of Buki was searched with the participation of the [German] agricultural leader and the the Ukrainian locality chief, as well as of the [local] militia [auxiliary police] of the locality of Buki. It was determined that numerous Jews and other local residents were supplying foodstuffs to the partisans, informing them about the Company’s whereabouts, and also were planning terror attacks. Based on the interrogations of the culprits and other suspicious persons on whom weapons were found and who were unable to identify themselves, [it was concluded that] a total of 137 people, Jews and Christians, were executed…