Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre
The Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre was a World War II mass shooting of Jews carried out in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa, by the German Police Battalion 320 along with Friedrich Jeckeln's Einsatzgruppen, Hungarian soldiers, and the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police. The killings were conducted on August 27 and August 28, 1941, in the Soviet city of Kamianets-Podilskyi (now Ukraine), occupied by German troops in the previous month on July 11, 1941. According to the Nazi German reports a total of 23,600 Jews were murdered, including 16,000 who had earlier been expelled from Hungary.
| Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre | |
|---|---|
Jews marched through Kamenets to their execution site on the outskirts of town | |
| Location | Kamianets-Podilskyi |
| Date | August 27–28, 1941 |
| Perpetrators | Friedrich Jeckeln Einsatzgruppen Police Battalion 320 Ukrainian Auxiliary Police |
| Victims | 23,600 Hungarian and Ukrainian Jews |
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