Koshevataya Ravine Holocaust murder site
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Murder story of Koshevataya Jews in the Koshevataya Ravine
Murder Site
Koshevataya
Ukraine (USSR)
In mid-September 1941 about 50 Jews still living in Koshevataya were collected under the pretext of being transported to work in another place. They were taken to a ravine on the southern outskirts of the village and shot dead in small groups. The perpetrators of this massacre were members of Einsatzkommando 5 of Einsatzgruppe C.
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From the Einsatzgruppen Reports
October 20, 1941
Operation Situation Report USSR No. 119
Einsatzgruppe C …Also, in Koshevatoye [Koshevataya], partisans and parachutists were allegedly sheltered by Jews. Thus, all the Jews of this town were also liquidated by Einsatzkommando 5…
Arad, Yitzhak, Krakowski, Shmuel and Spector, Shmuel. The Einsatzgruppen reports : selections from the dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' campaign against the Jews July 1941-January 1943 . New York : Holocaust Library, 1989, p. 199.
Koshevataya
ravine
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Koshevataya Ravine Holocaust murder site
Lo Tishkakh Foundation, Copy YVA 14616322