Pyatigoryn kylän juutalaisten joukkosurma Ukrainassa

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Publicerades den 4 juli 2017

Raisa Kleter (Zelenkova), who was born in Pyatigory in 1912 and was living there during the war years tells about the murder of Pyatigory Jews, including the family of her brother, about her rescue through posing as Ukrainian and about the active role of local auxiliary policemen in murder of Pyatigory Jews. http://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstorie...

Pyatigory machine-tractor station

Latitude: 49.35511, Longitude: 29.99208

On November 15 (or November 14, according to the inscriptions on the monuments to the Holocaust victims), 1942 Jews from Pyatigory and Jews brought to Pyatigory from villages all over Tetiyev County were collected at the prison of the Pyatigory auxiliary police station and locked up there overnight. The next day these Jews, of all ages and both sexes, were taken to the area of the Pyatigory machine-tractor station on the northern outskirts of the town and held in a shed there. After being forced to strip to their underwear, the Jews were taken in small groups to a nearby pit, forced to kneel at its edge, and then shot in the back of the head. The perpetrators of this massacre, which claimed the lives of between 100 (according to perpetrators' testimonies) and 300 (according to Soviet reports) people, were German rural policemen from the Tetiyev County police station and auxiliary policemen brought to Pyatigory from all over Tetiyev County.

From the Testimony of Maria Soroka, who was born in 1902, July 9, 1945:

…I know that on October 17, 1942, at 6 a.m., German police, i.e. gendarmerie and police of Tetiyev County, left for the village of Pyatigory, Tetiyev County to shoot the Jews.

 In Pyatigory about 300 Jews were herded into the MTS [Machine-Tractor Station] facilities, into a shed. I too was in this shed, together with all the [other] Jews.
At 6 a.m. the police started the shooting at a pit in which sugar beets used to be stored. A plank was placed across this pit. Each time the policemen placed 5 Jews on this plank and shot them. Thereupon, the Jews who had been shot fell into the pit. The shooting lasted until 2 p.m. I was taken to be shot together with four [other] Jews; I escaped being shot only after my adopted father provided a document according to which I was not Jewish but rather Ukrainian.

Antonovka Forest

According to one testimony, in the spring of 1942, immediately after the deportation of able-bodied Jews from Pyatigory and from other localities of Tetiyev County to the Antonovka labor camp in Buki County, an unknown number of male deportees considered unable to work were shot in the forest close to the camp. Neither the exact date nor the identity of the perpetrators of this massacre is known. During the entire existence of this camp the inmates who were deemed unfit for work were shot, also in the Antonovka Forest. It is not known exactly when these shootings took place or who carried them out.

Pyatigory field

Latitude: 49.33455, Longitude: 29.92616

Site of the murder of Jewish men and teenagers from Pyatigory in 1941 or 1942 Courtesy of Lo Tishkakh Foundation

According to some testimonies, in August 1941 about two dozen male Jews of Pyatigory were collected at the former school building, ostensibly for a meeting, and from there were taken to the town's outskirts, to a field (that is near the present Gagarin Street in Pyatigory) and were shot to death. The perpetrators of this massacre were most likely members of Einsatzgruppe C. A different version of the murder operation was presented by the inscription placed at the murder site in the 2000s. According to this information, the massacre took place on November 15, 1942, on the same day that other Jews of Pyatigory were murdered at the Piatigory machine-tractor station.
http://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/murderSite.asp?site_id=1378