26–28 August 1941
Massacre at Kamianets-Podilskyi
Historical context
On 26–28 August 1941, SS and police units under Friedrich Jeckeln murdered 23,600 Jews near Kamianets-Podilskyi. More than half were deportees from Hungary.
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- 26–28 August 1941
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On 26–28 August 1941, SS and police units, with locally recruited auxiliaries, murdered 23,600 Jews near Kamianets-Podilskyi in occupied Soviet Ukraine. Friedrich Jeckeln, Higher SS and Police Leader, commanded the operation. USHMM records this as the largest massacre of Jews the Germans had yet carried out in occupied Europe.
More than half the victims were Jews deported from Hungary after Hungarian officials expelled people who could not prove citizenship. They were handed to German forces and held in a ghetto at Kamianets-Podilskyi. Two-thirds of the local Jewish community were also killed.
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- Massacre at Kamenets-Podolsk · United States Holocaust Memorial Museum · Holocaust Encyclopedia View source
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