Language:
English
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
27,2 (2013) 207-241
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
;
Kam'i︠a︡net︠s︡ʹ-Podilʹsʹkyĭ (Ukraine)
Abstract:
In late August 1941, 23,600 Jews were massacred in the Ukrainian border town of Kamenets-Podolski, among them 16,000 Jews who had been deported from Hungary, while the rest were refugees from Romania and local Jews. This mass murder was preceded by the deportation of 22,000 "alien" Jews from Hungary and territories annexed by her to the Hungarian-occupied areas of Ukraine. Most of these deportees were murdered by the SS, German police, and Ukrainian collaborators in August-October 1941 in Kamenets-Podolsk, Nadwórna, Stanisławów, Kołomyya, and elsewhere; others were deported to Bełżec later. Focuses on the deportation of the victims from Hungary to Ukraine, which was set in motion by a decree issued on 12 July 1941 by the National Central Alien Control Authority (KEOKH). In fact it was planned before this date by local authorities of the annexed territories, e.g. by the Government Commissioner for Carpatho-Ruthenia Miklós Kozma. The deportation, implemented by the army, was ill-organized and not coordinated with the German occupying authorities in Ukraine; there was much arbitrariness in its implementation. Many of the deportees possessed Hungarian citizenship; many were killed during the expulsion itself. The deportation of summer 1941 opened a new stage in the planned destruction of European Jewry, the stage of total annihilation.
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