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A German police officer shoots Jewish women still alive after a mass execution of Jews from the Mizocz ghetto.

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    A German police officer shoots Jewish women still alive after a mass execution of Jews from the Mizocz ghetto.
    A German police officer shoots Jewish women still alive after a mass execution of Jews from the Mizocz ghetto.

According to the Zentrale Stelle in Germany (Zst. II 204 AR 1218/70), these Jews were collected by the German Gendarmerie and Ukrainian Schutzmannschaft during the liquidation of the Mizocz ghetto, which held roughly 1,700 Jews.  On the eve of the ghetto's liquidation (13 October 1942), some of the inhabitants rose up against the Germans and were defeated after a short battle.  The remaining members of the community were transported from the ghetto to this ravine in the Sdolbunov Gebietskommissariat, south of Rovno, where they were executed.  Information regarding this action, including the photos, were acquired from a man named Hille, who was the Bezirks-Oberwachtmeister of the Gendarmerie at the time.  Hille apparently gave the five photos (there were originally seven) to the company lawyer of a textile firm in Kunert, Czechoslovakia, where he worked as a doorman after the war.  The Czech government confiscated the photos from the lawyer in 1946 and they subsequently became public.  That the photos indeed show the shooting of Jews in connection with the liquidation of the ghetto was also confirmed by a statement of Gendarmerie-Gebietsfuehrer Josef Paur in 1961.

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    A German police officer shoots Jewish women still alive after a mass execution of Jews from the Mizocz ghetto.

    According to the Zentrale Stelle in Germany (Zst. II 204 AR 1218/70), these Jews were collected by the German Gendarmerie and Ukrainian Schutzmannschaft during the liquidation of the Mizocz ghetto, which held roughly 1,700 Jews. On the eve of the ghetto's liquidation (13 October 1942), some of the inhabitants rose up against the Germans and were defeated after a short battle. The remaining members of the community were transported from the ghetto to this ravine in the Sdolbunov Gebietskommissariat, south of Rovno, where they were executed. Information regarding this action, including the photos, were acquired from a man named Hille, who was the Bezirks-Oberwachtmeister of the Gendarmerie at the time. Hille apparently gave the five photos (there were originally seven) to the company lawyer of a textile firm in Kunert, Czechoslovakia, where he worked as a doorman after the war. The Czech government confiscated the photos from the lawyer in 1946 and they subsequently became public. That the photos indeed show the shooting of Jews in connection with the liquidation of the ghetto was also confirmed by a statement of Gendarmerie-Gebietsfuehrer Josef Paur in 1961.
    Date
    1942 October 14
    Locale
    Mizocz, [Rovno; Ukraine] Poland
    Variant Locale
    Mizoch
    Ukraine
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Instytut Pamieci Narodowej

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    Photo Source
    Instytut Pamieci Narodowej
    Copyright: Agency Agreement
    Published Source
    The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust... - Berenbaum, Michael - Little, Brown and Company

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