Language:
English
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
27,3 (2013) 443-463
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
Abstract:
Indigenous administration bodies (e.g. the Municipal Council and police districts' burgomasters), established by the German occupiers in Kharkiv after the city was captured in October 1941, played a crucial role in identifying Jews, evicting them from their apartments, and forcing them into the temporary ghetto in the barracks of the Kharkiv Machine-Tool Factory and the Tractor Factory. The participation of local government bodies in the Holocaust went further than carrying out purely "technical" functions such as convoying and guarding inmates: the Kharkiv Municipal Council and the tenth district council (in whose area the ghetto was situated) were effective also in the murder of Jews, both under German supervision and without it. Many local administration workers, Ukrainian and Russian as well, took part in the looting of Jewish property. Dwells on the role played in the events by Mykola Kucherenko, commandant of the Machine-Tool Factory barracks; Oleksii Kramarenko, the city's deputy burgomaster; and some other indigenous officials. Only a small minority of these perpetrators were ideologically motivated antisemites or "integral nationalists"; the great majority acted out of conformity or the pursuit of material interests.
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