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Ukrainian Insurgent Army
paramilitary wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
Einsatzgruppen
'''''' (, ; also 'task forces') were (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe. The had an integral role in the implementation of the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish question" () in territories conquered by Nazi Germany, and were involved in the murder of much of the intelligentsia and cultural elite of Poland, including members of the Catholic priesthood. Almost all of the people they murdered were civilians, beginning with the intelligentsia and swiftly progres
Generalplan Ost
Nazi racial plan of enslavement and genocide of peoples of Central and Eastern Europe, mainly Jews, Slavs & Roma
5th SS Panzer Division Wiking
division
Sonderaktion 1005
destruction of evidence of mass murder at Operation Reinhardt killing centres
The last Jew in Vinnitsa
iconic photograph picturing the imminent execution of a Jewish man by a Nazi
Nachtigall Battalion
Ethnic Ukrainian unit of the World War Two German Army.
The Holocaust in Ukraine
aspect of Nazi Germany's extermination campaign (1941–1945)
Slovechne
Slovechno (, , ), also called Slovechne, is a village in the Korosten Raion of Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. It is from Ovruch. Placed next to the Slovechna river, it is the capital of .
Trochenbrod
Trochenbrod or Trohinbrod (, ) was an exclusively Jewish shtetl – a small town, with an area of – located in the Łuck powiat of the Wołyń Voivodeship, in the Second Polish Republic and would now be located in the Volyn Oblast in Ukraine. The town used to be situated about northeast of Lutsk.
Bogdanovka concentration camp
Romanian concentration camp for Jews in Transnistria Governorate
Mizocz Ghetto
Nazi ghetto in occupied Ukraine
Bilche Zolote
Bilche-Zolote ( ''Bil'che Zolote; ; ) is a Ukrainian village located within the Chortkiv Raion (district) of the Ternopil Oblast (province), about driving distance southwest of Kyiv. It hosts the administration of Bilche-Zolote rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. This rural community is located in a small valley adjacent to the Seret'' River, which is surrounded by plateaus covered with farms, broken by occasional stands of mixed forest. Bilche-Zolote is home to a remarkable park of , of which is covered with virgin timber, including some trees up to 400 years old. Bilche-Zolote is
Volksliste
nazi program classifying inhabitants of German-occupied territory
Einsatzkommando
During World War II, the Nazi German ''''''' were a sub-group of the ' (mobile killing squads) – up to 3,000 men total – usually composed of 500–1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to exterminate Jews, Polish intellectuals, Romani, and communists in the captured territories often far behind the advancing German front. Einsatzkommandos, along with Sonderkommandos, were responsible for the systematic murder of Jews during the aftermath of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. After the war, several commanders were tried in the Einsatzgruppen trial, conv
Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany
overview of Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II
Hermann Friedrich Graebe
German Righteous Among the Nations; affiant in the IMT (International Military Tribunal)
Romanivka
village in Berdychiv Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine
Extraordinary State Commission
Soviet government agency tasked with investigating World War II crimes against the Soviet Union
Ivanhorod Einsatzgruppen photograph
image of the Holocaust in Ukraine
Hegewald
human settlement
Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
Holocaust museum in Kyiv, Ukraine
Kharkov Trial
Kharkov war criminal trial 1943
Syrets concentration camp
Nazi concentration camp in Kyiv, Ukraine (1942-1943)
Ukrainian People's Militia
Ukrainian organization
Severity Order
nazi war order
Pechera concentration camp
concentration camp operated by Romania during World War II in the village of Pechora, now in Ukraine
Vapniarka concentration camp
WW2-era Romanian-run concentration camp in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
Order Police Battalion
police unit size
Einsatzgruppen reports
Internal Nazi reports on the Holocaust
Tango of Death
Forced Jewish orchestra at the Janowska concentration camp
Lozisht
Ignatówka, also Lozisht, was a Jewish shtetl (village) located in what is now western Ukraine but which used to be part of the Second Polish Republic before the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. Ignatówka was bordering a Jewish shtetl in Zofjówka, located in the gmina Silno, powiat Łuck of the Wołyń Voivodeship, in prewar Poland. The two villages were part of a joint Jewish community of Trochenbrod and Lozisht.