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Murder Story of Korostyshev Jews in Korostyshev
Murder Site
Korostyshev
Ukraine (USSR)
At the end of July 1941, members of Sonderkommando 4a took 40 Jews of Korostyshev to the local German headquarters and shot them to death there. The Germans did so after accusing the Jews of espionage and sabotage, as well as of contact with the partisans.
On September 20, 1941, German death squads killed an additional 60 Jews in Korostyshev . As earlier, the Jews were accused by the German authorities of having contacts with the partisans.
Related Resources
German Reports / Romanian Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports
The German report from Korostyshev
August 09, 1941,
Operational Situation Report USSR No. 47
Einsatzgruppe C Location: Zhitomir
In Korostyshev 40 Jews were liquidated for sabotage, espionage, and looting since it is known that returning Jews terrorized the population and had kept close contact with the armed guerillas in the vicinity.
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. 79.
The German report from Korostyshev
The Status report from September 20, 1941 Fieldheadquarters
Military administration
Recently, as a measure of reprisal, 60 Jews from Korostyshev and some Jews from Zhitomir (the number has not yet been confirmed) were shot dead.
BA - MA Freiburg RH22/204 copy YVA M.29 / 532
Korostyshev
town
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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