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Vinnitsa Mental Asylum

Between September and November 1941 about 500 Jewish patients of the mental asylum in Vinnitsa were shot in the asylum's courtyard or killed by lethal injections.

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Pyatnichany Brick Factory

At the end of July 1941 25 Jewish men, members of the intelligentsia, and former Soviet officials were murdered at the brick factory in the Pyatnichany area, on the western outskirts of Vinnitsa. In early August 1941 between 150 and 350 (according to German or Soviet sources) Jewish members of the intelligentsia were collected on orders of the head of Sonderkommando 4b of Einsatzgruppe C, Guenther Hermann, under the pretext of their being assigned to office work. The assembled Jews were taken to a brick factory in Pyatnichany and shot in a quarry near the factory.

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Sheremetka

On September 13 (in October, according to some testimonies), 1941 Jewish families whose members totaled about 1,000 were assembled under the pretext of being sent to work. The victims were driven southwest of the city and murdered in the area of the villages of Sheremetka and Medvezhye Ushko.

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Pyatnichany Forest

On the morning of September 19, 1941 members of a detachment of Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C, together with members of the 45th and 314th Order Police Battalions and Ukrainian auxiliaries started to drive Vinnitsa Jews of all ages and both sexes, who were living west of the South Bug River in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Ierusalimka, to a collection point in the area of Volodarskaya, Sobornaya, and Pervomayskaya Streets, close to the river bank. The assembled Jews had their papers checked, then they were loaded into trucks and taken to the Pyatnichany Forest on the western outskirts of the city (now part of Vinnitsa). There, near Litin (now Khmelnitskiy) Road the Jews were forced to surrender the valuables they had brought with them and were then shot to death at large trenches dug in advance on German orders by Soviet prisoners of war. Estimates of the total number of victims of this massacre range from 3,500 to 10,000 or even to the exaggerated number of 15,000 (according to different Soviet sources). On April 16, 1942 the commissar of the city of Vinnitsa Fritz Margenfeld ordered the Jews of Vinnitsa who had survived the massacres of 1941 to appear at the local stadium, allegedly for resettlement in a ghetto. After Jews of all ages and both sexes assembled at the stadium, a selection was carried out by Baltic auxiliaries who were stationed in Vinnitsa at this time. About 1,000 skilled workers were separated and sent to the city prison, while the rest were ordered to hand over the belongings they had brought with them. They were then driven to the Pyatnichany Forest and killed at the same murder site as the victims of September 1941. The number of victims of this massacre was about 5,000. The perpetrators of this mass murder were apparently members of the Reich Security Service, responsible for Hitler's personal security.

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Tyazhilov Brick Factory

On the morning of September 19, 1941 Germans and Ukrainian auxiliaries started to drive the Jews living in the Zamostye area on the right bank of South Bug River out of their homes to the collection point on Kotsyubinskiy Avenue. From there the victims were taken to a brick factory in Tyazhilov (then on the eastern outskirts of the city, now part of Vinnitsa). After being forced to strip naked, the victims were shot at a pit. It is unknown how many people were murdered in Tyazhilov, but the total number of victims of the September 19 massacre exceeded 10,000. The perpetrators were members of Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C and of the 45th, of the 314th Order Police Battalions, probably also of 304th Order Police Battalion and Ukrainian auxiliaries.

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POW camp in Vinnitsa

Several hundred Soviet Jewish prisoners of war who were held in the Vinnitsa POW camp in the military barracks area and wounded Jewish prisoners who had been brought to the camp from the hospital for POWs were shot in the POW camp in the fall of 1941.

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Parpurovtsy

About 500 Jewish inmates of the Vinnitsa labor camp were shot on August 25, 1942 by Germans and local auxiliary policemen near the villages of Parpurovtsy and Luka-Meleshkovskoye, 15 kilometers southeast of Vinnitsa.

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