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Teachers' Seminary Building in Uman

According to one testimony, in the second half of September 1941 a number of members of the Jewish intelligentsia of Uman were hanged, probably by members of Einsatzkommando 5 of Einsatzgruppe C, near the building in which the teachers' seminary of Uman had been located before the war.

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Gravel Pit in Uman

According to materials from the postwar judicial proceedings against former commander of Sonderkommando 4b of Einsatzgruppe C Guenther Herrmann very soon after the start of German occupation of Uman, in early August 1941, about 100 Jews of the city were murdered by Sonderkommando members at a gravel pit in Uman or near it.

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Pioneer Palace in Uman

In the course of a pogrom carried out in Uman by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen and Wehrmacht soldiers on September 21 (24, according to the inscription on the memorial plaque), 1941 about 1,000 Jews of Uman were locked into a cellar of the former Pioneer Palace on Lenin (now Yevropeiska) Street. During the occupation this building served as a prison. Most of the imprisoned Jews suffocated from overcrowding or, according to several testimonies and to the inscription on the memorial plaque, were gassed to death.

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Uman Jewish Cemetery

During the pogrom carried out in Uman on September 21, 1941 some Jewish men had been imprisoned. Apparently, on September 22 (or September 23), 1941 all of them were taken to the Jewish Cemetery in order to prepare a pit and then shot. On the same day about 1,500 Jews of Uman were brought to the same place and murdered by members of Einsatzkommando 5 of Einsatzgruppe C.

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Sukhoi Yar

On October 8, 1941, the inmates of the Uman ghetto of all ages and both sexes were violently driven out of their houses and taken to the market square located in the ghetto area between Sovetskaya (now Nebesnaya Sotnya) and Vostochnaya (now Skhidna) Streets, ostensibly for registration and subsequent resettlement in Palestine. From there the between 5,500 and 6,000 Jews who had been collected were taken, partly on foot and partly by truck, about 8 kilometers to the northwestern outskirts of Uman, to a tract known as Sukhoi Yar. There the victims had to hand over the possessions they had with them and to strip, either totally or to their underwear. Then the victims were taken in groups of several dozen each to three pits that had been dug in advance, and forced either to kneel at the edge of the pit or lie face down in the pit, where they were shot in the back of the head. According to some sources, about 600 Jewish Soviet prisoners of war from the Uman POW camp were also shot in this massacre. The perpetrators of this mass murder were members of the 304th Order Police Battalion.

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Brick Factory in Uman

According to one testimony, Jewish children were either shot or buried alive on October 8 (or in early November), 1941 at the brick factory on the southwestern outskirts of Uman.

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Grodzevo Forest

According to the findings of the Lo Tishkakh Foundation, on April 22 or 23, 1942 about 1,500 Jews who had survived the previous massacres in Uman and were considered by the Germans as unfit for work were taken to the forest near the village of Grodzevo, about 10 kilometers southeast of Uman, and shot dead there. The identity of the perpetrators of this massacre is unknown.

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