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Monastery of the Cave

According to eyewitness testimony, in early 1942, on a number of occasions, Jewish prisoners of war held in the prisoner of war camp near Kiev's Monastery of the Cave on the western bank of the Dnepr River were shot on the territory of the camp after being forced to strip naked. Also according to an eyewitness account, in the fall of 1942 a group of about 100 Jewish men, apparently refugees from the western part of Ukraine who were held for about half a year in a special camp near the Monastery of the Cave and were forced to work in the kitchen garden near the monastery, were shot dead by members of an unidentified SS unit.

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Combat Engineering Training Ground in Kiev

On September 23, 1941 about 100 Jews of Kiev were arrested and taken to the area of the former training ground of an engineering regiment on the southern outskirts of the city. There they were killed with explosives. The perpetrators were apparently members of a forward squad of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C.

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St. Kirill Grove

In October 1941 the director of the Pavlov Mental Hospital, which was situated on the territory of the former St. Kirill Monastery and, thus, was also known as St. Kirill Hospital, was asked by German security police to submit lists of Jewish patients, whom the Germans were supposedly going to resettle in the Vinnitsa area. After the lists were compiled and submitted, about 300 Jews were separated from the rest of the patients and held in a separate ward, located near the St. Kirill grove, just east of the Babi Yar Ravine. On October 15, 1941 members of Einsatzkommando 5 of Einsatzgruppe C took them in small groups to the grove and shot them to death.

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