Krasnopilka, Ukraine
Tcherkassy region

Yahad team investigation: December 2010

Witnesses interviewed: 2

Wiitness interview

Nikolaï M. (N° 1104): In the second camp, there was also a ravine. The Jews who died of hunger and cold were buried there, lying down on top of the other. The weakest Jews were helped by the strongest ones into the mass grave.

German archives

B162-6159 (p.29) : “I arrived at the mass grave and saw how the Jews were driven into the grave through a kind of entrance and then shot from the edge of grave. From time to time, the corpses which lay in a chaotic way were rearranged. In between, the mass grave was covered with sand”.
B162-6166 (p.35-37) : “[the prisoners] were shot in the garden behind the municipal building of Krasnopilka”.