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Murder story of Uman Jews in the Gravel Pit in Uman
Murder Site
Gravel Pit in Uman
Ukraine (USSR)
According to materials from the postwar judicial proceedings against former commander of Sonderkommando 4b of Einsatzgruppe C Guenther Herrmann very soon after the start of German occupation of Uman, in early August 1941, about 100 Jews of the city were murdered by Sonderkommando members at a gravel pit in Uman or near it.
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From the Judicial Proceedings against former commanding officers of Sonderkommando 4b of Einsatzgruppe C Gunther Herrmann and Fritz Braune, Dusseldorf, 1962
1962
From the Indictment against former commanding officers of Sonderkommando 4b of Einsatzgruppe C Fritz Braune and Gunther Herrmann: …Furthermore, the defendant Herrmann is charged [with responsibility for the fact] that, on his orders, in Uman in late July-early August 1941 at least 80 Jews were killed at a gravel pit by being shot in the back of the head by members of a still unidentified unit, in at least one mass shooting. Here, too, the victims were taken in groups to the shooting site so that those people waiting [to be shot] witnessed the fate of their fellow victims and had to bear the sight of their bodies at close range.…
ZENTRALE STELLE, LUDWIGSBURG B 162/18184 copy YVA TR.10 / 836
Gravel Pit in Uman
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Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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