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Migalevtsy

On August 19 or 20 (according to different testimonies), 1942 the inmates of the Yaltushkov ghetto, including Jews from Yaltushkov itself and also deportees from Verkhovka and other nearby villages, were collected at the market square of the town. After the selection of able-bodied people, about 200 (according to a German report) or 450 (according to a Soviet report) Jews deemed unfit for work -- mainly women, children, and elderly people -- were taken by cart or on foot in the direction of the railway near the sugar factory on the outskirts of Yaltushkov. They were told that they were going to be transported to Palestine. Instead, the victims were taken several kilometers outside Yaltushkov to fields north of the town. There, in the vicinity of Migalevsty village, they were shot by members of the Kamenets-Podolsk security police.
On October 15, 1942, several hundred (more than one thousand, according to a Soviet report) Jews still incarcerated in the Yaltushkov ghetto were taken to the same place, forced to take off their clothes, and then were shot dead. The perpetrators of this massacre were apparently German rural policemen from the area and local auxiliary policemen.

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Migalevtsy

On August 19 or 20 (according to different testimonies), 1942 Jews from Verkhovka, mainly women, elderly people, and children who were deported to the Yaltushkov ghetto were assembled by members of the German Security Police from Kamenets-Podolsk and local Ukrainian auxiliaries at the market square of Yaltushkov, together with about 450 other ghetto inmates. They were told they were going to Palestine, but were driven to a pit dug in advance in a field several kilometers north of Yaltushkov, near Migalevtsy village, and shot dead there. Several able-bodied Verkhovka Jews were spared during this massacre and sent to the labor camp in Guli. The very few Jews from Verkhovka who survived the August 1942 massacre were murdered on October 15, 1942, in a murder operation in which the number of victims (according to Soviet reports) was about 1,200.

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