- Dates
- 26–28 Aug. 1941
- Victims
- About 23,600 Jews
- Region
- Occupied Ukraine
- Significance
- Early large-scale massacre
Hungarian deportations
Thousands of Jews were deported from Hungarian-controlled territory into German-occupied Ukraine, often because authorities treated them as foreign or unable to prove citizenship.
German planning
The massacre was organized within Friedrich Jeckeln’s Higher SS and Police apparatus. Police Battalion 320 and units connected with Einsatzgruppe C participated.
August 26–28
Local Jews and deportees were assembled, taken to killing areas outside the city and shot in mass graves.
Why it matters
The action preceded Babyn Yar and was among the earliest concentrated massacres to murder more than 20,000 Jewish men, women and children.
Responsibility across borders
The history requires attention to both the Hungarian deportation decision and the German killing operation.
Evidence and memory
German records, postwar investigations and testimony document the massacre.
Sources
This page draws on the institutional sources listed below.