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3 The Holocaust in Ukraine

Index

Introduction

Historiography

Source Types

The Pogroms of 1941

A01 Iaroslav Stetsko of the OUN-B denounces Jews before World War II

A02 Stanisław Różycki describes attacks on Jews in Lviv in June and July 1941

A03 Heydrich Telegram

A04 Nationalist placard posted in Lviv on 30 June 1941 incites pogroms

A05 Dutch Member of the Wiking Division of the Waffen-SS Approves Pogroms, 1, 2 and 4 July 1941

A06 Felix Landau, Member of the Einsatzgruppe zur besonderen Verwendung, Describing his Participation in the Shootings of Jews in Lviv, 2 and 5 July 1941

A07 Iaroslav Stetsko Informs the Germans of his support for their “Methods of Exterminating Jewry” in July 1941

A08 Report by group 711 (7th July 1941) about the mass murder in Lemberg

A09 In 1945 Rózia Wagner recalls the pogrom in Lviv

A10 In 1946 Philip Friedman Recalls the Pogrom in Lviv

German Mass Shootings

B01 Report by Lieutenant Groscurth

B02 Statement by von Reichenau

B03 Diary of Iryna Khoroshunova (30 September, 2 and 6 October 1941)

B04 Images from Babi Yar and the city of Kiev Shot by Military Photographer Johannes Hähle in October 1941

B05 La Stampa article (31th of October 1941)

B06 Report of the Soviet Armed Forces (15 January 1942)

B07 Mikhl Tanklevski in the Soviet Yiddish-Language Press (5 April 1943)

B08 Babi Yar survivor Iakov Steiuk tells his story to the NKGB, 12 November 1943

B09 Babi Yar Survivor Dina Pronicheva describes her ordeal to Soviet Historians, 24 April 1946

B10 In the courtroom in Darmstadt, Sonderkommando 4a Veteran August Häfner Recalls the Murders at Babi Yar, 7 November 1967

Auxiliary Administration and Police

C01 A young member of the “Polissian Sich” police force in Volhynia about his shooting of Jews, 21 September 1941

C02 Article by the Kiev City Administration, 1941

C03 Orlyk warns house custodians to report Jewish inhabitants, NKVD Officers, or Members of the Communist Party

C04 The German Feldkommandantur [Field Command] Reports on unlicensed measures toward the Jews of Kremenchuk, 24 October and 24 November 1941

C05 Order by the German Gebietskommissar

C06 The SS Reports its Shooting of the Mayor of Kremenchuk for Helping Jews, 6 March 1942

C07 German Beauftragte [Plenipotentiary] orders the Kiev City Administration to Allow a Ukrainian Woman to Purchase Furniture Owned by Jews, 27 January 1942

C08 Kiev Mayor Leontii Forostivsky Denounces Jews, September 1943

C09 Former Policeman Vasyl Pokotylo is Interrogated by Soviet Interrogators about His Activities in Kiev, is Allowed to Retract Some Statements, and is Sentenced to Death, March–September 1945

C10 August Häfner Recalls the Murder of Jewish Infants

C11 Edmund Pyszczuk Recalls the Murder of Jewish Infants

Christian Leaders

D01 Pastoral letter on 1 July 1941

D02 Metropolitan Sheptytsky Informs Pope Pius XII about Murders of Jews

D03 Warning by metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky: “Thou Shalt Not Kill” (21 November 1942)

D04 Friedrich Katzmann, SS and Police Leader in the Galicia District of the General Government, and Governor Otto Wächter Announce that Hiding Jews Carries the Death Penalty, 3 June 3, 1943

D05 Oded Amarant Recalls How the Greek Catholic Leadership Saved His Life by Moving Him to the Monastery in Uhniv/Uhnów

D06 Archbishop Polikarp (Sikorsky) of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church denounces the Jews (25 March 1943)

D07 At a Burial of Victims of NKVD Shootings, Bishop Hryhorii (Ohiichuk) of Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia denounces Stalin and “his” Jews, 12 June 1943

D08 In a Leaflet, Bishop Hryhorii (Ohiichuk) of Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia Warns against Extermination by the “Armed Forces of World Jewry,” 3 August 1943

D09 In a Leaflet, Bishop Panteleimon (Rudyk) of the Orthodox Autonomous Church Denounces Jews as Satanic, May 1943

D10 The Orthodox priest Aleksei Glagolev recalls German murders in Kiev, 1945

Transnistria

E09 Testimony by Survivors Liusia Sukharevich and Mania Ribalova, 9 May 1944

E01 Romania’s Deputy Prime Minister Speaks to His Cabinet, July 1941

E02 News Bulletin by Jewish Telegraphic Agency (5 August 1941)

E03 Governor Gheorghe Alexianu Describes Deportation

E04 Romanian Orders for the Massacre of Jewish Refugees in Odessa

E05 German Military Intelligence Reports the Bombing in Odessa and the Subsequent Massacre of Jews, 4 November 1941

E06 Joseph Stalin edits a Pravda Report for 16 November 1941 on Romanian killings of Jews in Odessa

E07 Governor Alexianu of Transnistria announces and streamlines the Deportation of Odessa’s Jews for Forced Labor, as well as the Confiscation of their Property, 2 January 1942

E08 Jews in Transnistria Appeal for Help through the International Red Cross, 22 October 1942

E10 Testimony by Survivor Naum Krimer

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