The Shoah (1939–1945)
Kryvyï Rih shootings
Oct. 1941·Kryvyï Rih
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The Jewish population remaining in the mining basin is shot by Einsatzgruppe C in the weeks following occupation.
Kryvyï Rih is the center of the Ukrainian iron basin. The Einsatzgruppe C follows the Wehrmacht into the industrial cities of the Dnieper and applies the same method there: registration of Jews by the appointed municipal council, summons under an administrative pretext, march toward a remote location.
The executions take place in the weeks following the occupation, near the mines. As everywhere in the basin, a portion of the inhabitants had been evacuated along with the dismantled factories, and the victims are above all the elderly, the women, and the children who remained in place.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Ukraine
Yad Vashem, *The Untold Stories* ; rapports opérationnels de l'Einsatzgruppe C ; mémorial de Kryvyï Rih.