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The Holocaust period and colonies

In 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, putting in immediate danger the approximately 3,000,000 Jews who lived in the Soviet republics. Hard on
the heals of the rapidly advancing Wermacht were the Einzatsgruppen, the special SS units whose function was to put into action the Final Solution and exterminate the Jews of the Soviet Union.

In the Ukraine, in that area where were located the Jewish Agricultural colonies, most of which had been Sovietised as collectives, and their adjacent urban communities, the killing process was carried out by Einsatzgruppe D.

After the war, the details of the numbers of Jews who perished were not readily available in the West, obscured by the descent of the Iron Curtain. With the dismantling of the Soviet Union, much information about the Holocaust became available. Local authorities collated lists of the victims, eyewitness reports were recorded, and articles were write, both by Ukrainian and Jewish researchers.

Zelenopole (Myadla) massacre. The Death of the Jewish Collective Farm Workers of Zelenopolye
”Report from The Black Book” (Ehrenberg)
Yad Vashem Testimony sheets or Shlomo-Reuven Komisaruk, and his sons.
Yad Vashem Valley of the Communities – photographs, showing colonies and towns.
Novozlatopol massacre

List of victims.
Report of Soviet committee of investigation.(Original text in russian is here.)
Soviet Special Commission reports (under construction).

Zatishye Massacre Newspaper report of unveiling of memorial monument.
Holocaust in Berdyansk
Holocaust in Mariupol.

Considerable material is available on the Internet:

http://remember.org/
Transcripts of the Nuremberg Trials: http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/php/docs_swi.php?DI=1&text=overview
Simon Wiesenthal Center: http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/index.html
Reports of the Einzatsgruppen trials: http://www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/einsatz.html
US Holocaust Center http://www.ushmm.org/
Yad Vashem: http://www.yadvashem.org/
Search Yad Vashem's names database: http://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/IY_HON_Entrance

Last change: Sunday July 03 2005
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