Ternivka, Podolia, Ukraine:

Ternivka
Podolia, Ukraine

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Mass Grave Site
Ternivka, Ukraina

Тернивка
массовых захор онений евреев
Украйна

Fosse Commune a Ternivka. Ukraine





road to murder site

To death...in Ternivka



The Germans occupied Ternivka on July 29, 1941.
2,300 Jews perished in the mass murder
operations in the Antonovka forest
May 27, 1942 and April 2, 1943.
Ternivka mass murders

(Yad Vashem)




Memorial at the murder site in Ternovka Memorial at the murder site in Ternovka

Memorial at the murder site in Ternivka
Translation:
"Here are buried 2,300 Jews – children, women, and old people
killed
 by the hands of the German – fascist occupants
May 27, 1942 and April 2, 1943
.
"


According to Father Patrick Desbois, on   this site:

One of his interviewees was Petrivna, a Ukrainian woman, in the village of Ternivka. "The Jews", she said, "were gathered in the centre of the village and taken to a large pit on the fringes of the community. They were told to lie down, twenty at a time, and shot in the back of the head. It’s not easy to walk on bodies,"  Petrivna told the priest.

"Very calmly I asked her: ‘You had to walk on the bodies of the people who were shot?’ She replied:" ‘Yes, I had to pack them down . . . after every volley of shots.

We were three Ukrainian girls who, in our bare feet, had to pack them down, the bodies of the Jews, and throw a fine layer of sand on top of them so that other Jews could lay down.’

I [Christine Usdin] met Petrivna in Ternivka in June 2008. She is married to the only Jew who survived and shated [sic stayed?] in the village, Khaim Shtein. Khaim's daughter lives in Israel. I asked him, why he didn't go there. He answered "I was born here and I am married with an Ukrainian woman".


Khaim Shtein and his wife Petrivna. Ternivka    Khaim Shtein's house in Ternivka
Khaim Shtein, his wife Petrivna and their house in Ternivka ( June 10, 2008)



To the slaughter. Ternivka
To the slaughter....



The Mass Grave


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List of Jewish Victims from Ternivka

(Yad Vashem)


After The War, the survivors of  the Ternivka murders
were later buried in the mass grave of those who
perished – close to their siblings.



Photographs and page design by Christine Usdin.


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