Massacre of the children of Bila Tserkva

After the shooting of the Jewish adults of Bila Tserkva, ninety children left without parents were held for several days in a house, without water or food, and then shot. Two military chaplains, one Catholic and one Protestant, alerted the command, which allowed it to proceed.

The affair is one of the rare cases in which German soldiers protested in writing. Their reports were preserved, and they have become a major archival item in the history of the massacre in the East: they prove that the information was passed up the chain of command, that it was discussed at the higher level, and that the decision to continue was made with full knowledge of the facts.