Welcome to “Broad Daylight,” the Yahad – In Unum database of the sites of execution of Jews, Roma and other victims by the Nazis in Poland and the former Soviet Union during World War II.
This site summarizes the testimony gathered by Yahad investigators, village by village in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and Poland. Each entry indicates the presence of additional information drawn from the archives of German war crimes tribunals and/or Soviet Special Inquiry commissions. New villages are being added every month.
How to search for a village report
Reports can be located in two ways:
In addition to the information available on this site, Yahad trip reports, archival records and videotapes of witness testimony are available to researchers, journalists and family members of victims at Yahad’s headquarters in Paris and at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Do you have additional information regarding a village that you would like to share with Yahad? Please contact us at contact@yahadinunum.org or by calling Yahad – In Unum at +33 (0) 1 42 88 18 87
To access full (non-subtitled) videos of witness testimony for a village, please visit the Registered Users Area