Extraordinary
Commission Soviet Crimes Document
The Extraordinary
Commission Soviet Crimes document records
eyewitness testimony about the loss of life and
property in Lyubar during World War II. It was
created in 1945.
Copies of this document
are held at Yad Vashem in Israel and the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC
(USHMM).
It was compiled as an
effort by the Soviets to collect war
reparations. There are detailed lists of names
of those rounded up and exterminated along with
brief explanations of the events that occurred.
The names of German officials and local
Ukrainians that participated in these events are
specifically stated.
The Cyrillic
handwriting is sloppy and only parts are
legible. It is written in an official tone and
is not emotional.
It is the story of when
the Nazis came to Lyubar, how they rounded
people up and where they were taken.
The Jewish people were
killed gradually and not immediately upon
occupation. Not all of them were buried at the
mass grave site. There is mention of the
execution of four families in a field that was
communal property where many people worked.
Ukrainians and Russians were also killed.
This file includes a
list of 1199 citizens for the Lyubar region
including the names of those who perished and
were arrested, and it is arranged in columns
with birth dates, death dates, religion or
nationality. No addresses or occupations are
included. These names
appear to be listed online in Yad Vashem's Central
Database of Shoah Victims' Names. April 24, 2018
Testimony Q&A is by
"witnesses" of those killed by German Fascist
invaders and their collaborators. The Commission
included doctors from the community,
There were visitors
from other towns including Polonnoye and 197
people in the body count unknown to the
Commission.
Several documents
Document #1: 6/5/45
Document #2: 5/30/45
4/30/45-hearings
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per Alisa Kogan Shestopalova, Arlington, VA
"List of People Living
in Lyubar Killed Sept. 1941" prepared by the
Lyubar Council, May 30, 1945
List of little
towns/villages with inventory of those killed
and arrested. How shot, hung, tortured, died
from bombs, prisoners killed. How many sent to
Germany for work or for slavery.
Those responsible:
1. Otto GROSSMAN (German Oberlatin (like a
lieutenant). Chief of shooting and kidnapping,
his supervision.
2. ____ MILLER (German). Chief of Gendarmen
(police division), his supervision.
3. Paul VILLE (German). Zander of village
(commander). He took people to Germany from M-
and he confiscated Soviet citizens.
Summaries
1. July 1941-January 1944: Mass taking of people
to Germany who commanded and organized
(Stranislaw KULCHITSKY - chief of local police).
Another collaboration was a member of the
village government of Uruvka (SANEVICH Gregory
Andreovich). He was supervising how people got
to railroad station and to the German camps
located under the open sky and surrounded by a
wire.
2. Continuously organizing the group shooting of
peaceful citizens. All ages and genders.
3. Destruction of Jewish population. Tortured
enormously before being killed.
4. Tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, and others
were first used for needs of German Fascist
torturers. Then killed the same horrible way.
5. Same destiny for big part of other Russians,
Ukrainians, and minorities in this area.
6. Shooting took place in Peschanoye Pole (sand
fields). Bodies left in mass graves without
covering.
7. July 1941-January 1944, 3,050 were taken to
Germany. (See first chart for counts).
Act #2
May 30, 1945 Liubar of Liubarsky Region
Signed by physicians of the Liubar Hospital
LEIVLOV?, PROKOFEFORE,
They opened 1 of the
graves at Peschanoye near the village Kazoniya
Gromada located 3km NW of Liubar.
5 holes where Soviet
citizens left after shot in September 1941 - 121
or 126? Hole 3x10 meters in a wet area only
30-40cm beneath the ground. Bodies and luggage
for nearly 150 people. Skeletons now. All ages
and genders. All shot. No other torture found.
In Dec. 1941 -
Peschanoye Pole - mass execution of the people
by shooting. Thrown in pits, not buried.
Witness Testimony
May 30, 1945 Liubar
Lt. KATULNYIK (of militia) interrogating. Woman
(see name) b. 1899, peasant, never arrested.
"Please tell everything you know of the crimes
of the German Fascist occupants?" Answer: "They
immediately began to torture people, mainly
Jewish. Took them by night by car to Peschanoye
Pole 3 km from Liubar. Shot there in September
1941. In July 1941, they shot my husband. He was
killed because he was a member of the Communist
Party and before 1941 was chief of the village
of Steofska?" Also was asked why her husband
killed and who the collaborators and germs were.
She names.
Witness #2
Named ?, b. 1909 from Yurovka
Asked same questions. Her husband killed
December 1941. He killed their pig when he
wasn't allowed to. Arrested. 12 other people
killed with her husband 3km near Liubar. All
were killed for using salt.
Act #2 Summary
September 1941
Those killed by Fascists and their collaborators
who lived in Liubar = 1199
Including:
53 families totaling 180 people traveling
through and were caught and killed while in
Liubar.
Another 147 prisoners of war were included in
this count. Their names are not known.
These executions under GROSSMAN, KULCHITSKY
(chief of police), KUDIMOV (member of police),
KEYAN, SUKACH & other collaborators.
Act. #3
April 30, 1945
Village Derevichka
Act
#67
Village of Liubar
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