Ukraine

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Following Operation Barbarossa, the Socialist Soviet Republic of Ukraine found itself under German occupation, first military, then civilian. Its territory was divided into four German administrative and territorial units: the General Government for the western regions Lvov, Tarnopol, Ivano-Frankovsk, Volyn and Transcarpathia; the Transnistria for the Odessa region; the regions of Crimea, Kharkov, Chernigov and Donbass were under military jurisdiction and the other regions were part of the Reichkommissariat Ukraine.

At the beginning of World War II, following the annexation of parts of Galicia, including Volhynie, 2,500,000 Jews lived in the territory of what is today Ukraine. Approximately 1,500, 000 were killed by the Nazis.

The first large-scale killings took place July 28 and 29, 1941 at Kamenetz-Podolsk where more than 25,000 Jews were shot.

The Yahad – In Unum team conducted research for witnesses and the mass graves of Jewish victims of the shootings in the country in April 2004.