Drobyzkyj Yar massacre
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The Drobyzkyj Jar massacre was a series of mass shootings in the Drobyzkyj Jar gorge ( Ukrainian Дробицький Яр ; Russian Дробицкий Яр Drobizki Jar ' ) in the east of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv (Russian: Charkow) during the German occupation in World War II until 1943 were.
history
The Wehrmacht occupied Kharkiv on October 24, 1941. A census began on December 5 , in which the Jews were entered in special lists. On December 14, 1941, on the orders of Lieutenant General Alfred von Puttkamer, they were forced to assemble within two days in a ghetto made up of former workers' barracks at the tractor factory . From there, groups of 250 to 300 people were brought to Drobyzkyj Jar every day to be shot. Mainly women and children were killed in the additional gas truck .
Shortly after taking the city, the LV staff took over. Army Corps function as the city command post. The 57th Infantry Division was used as a backup force. The commander of the 57th Infantry Division, Major General Anton Dostler , acted as town commander until December 13, when Kharkov became an army territory and Alfred von Puttkamer took over the office of town commander. The administration of the city fell into the area of responsibility of the city command and field command 757. On December 14, the city commandant ordered the Jewish population to be gathered in a settlement in front of Kharkov. Around 20,000 Jews gathered there in two days. The special command 4a of Einsatzgruppe C of the SS under Standartenführer Paul Blobel , which operated behind the front line, shot the first of these Jews in December.
In the spring of 1942 the ghetto was closed. Subsequently, Soviet prisoners of war and mentally ill people were shot in Drobyzkyj Jar .
According to the State Archives of Kharkiv Oblast 16,000 people in Drobytsky Yar were about murdered.
The memorial to the victims of the mass murder in Drobyzkyj Yar was inaugurated in 2002.
See also
literature
- Christian Hartmann , Johannes Hürter , Ulrike Jureit : Crimes of the Wehrmacht. Balance of a debate. S. 123, Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52802-3 .
Web links
- Official website of the “Drobitsky Yar” memorial (Russian, eng.)
Coordinates: 49 ° 55 '58.8 " N , 36 ° 26' 23.5" E