Bogdanovka

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Bogdanovka was a concentration camp for Jews that was established by the Romanian authorities during World War II as part of the Holocaust, during the 1941 Odessa massacre which saw the extermination of Jews in Odessa and surrounding towns in Transnistria during the autumn of 1941 and the winter of 1942 in a series of massacres and killings during the Holocaust by Romanian forces, under German control, encouragement and instruction.

Location

Three concentration camps were situated near the villages of Bogdanovka, Domanovka and Acmecetca on the Southern Bug river, in Golta district, Transnistria with Bogdanoka holding 54,000 people by the end of 1941.

Massacres

In December 1941, a few cases of typhus which is a disease spread by lice and fleas broke out in the camp.^[1] A decision was made by the German adviser to the Romanian administration of the district and the Romanian District Commissioner to murder all the inmates. The Aktion began on December 21, and was carried out by Romanian soldiers and gendarmes, Ukrainian police and civilians from Golta,^[2] and local ethnic Germans under the commander of the Ukrainian regular police, Kazachievici. Thousands of disabled and ill inmates were forced into two locked stables, which were doused with kerosene and set ablaze, burning alive all those inside. Other inmates were led in groups to a ravine in a nearby forest and shot in the neck. The remaining Jews dug pits with their bare hands in the bitter cold, and packed them with frozen corpses. Thousands of Jews froze to death. A break was made for Christmas, but the killing resumed on December 28. By December 31, over 40,000 Jews had been killed.^[3]

Notes

↑ "Bogdanovka" (PDF). Yad Vashem.
↑ A district of Transnistria, see map.
↑ "December 21: More than 40,000 Jews shot at Bogdanovka". Yad Vashem.

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Major perpetrators	Paul Blobel Werner Braune Lothar Fendler Hans Frank Friedrich Jeckeln Ernst Kaltenbrunner Fritz Katzmann Erich Koch Felix Landau Gustav Adolf Nosske Otto Ohlendorf Paul Otto Radomski Otto Rasch Walter Schimana Erwin Schulz Otto Wächter Dieter Wisliceny

Nazi occupation and organizations	Einsatzgruppen General Government Reichskommissariat Ukraine

Collaborators	Individuals Volodymyr Bahaziy Vladimir Katriuk Petro Voinovsky Petro Zakhvalynsky Organizations Schutzmannschaft Ukrainian Auxiliary Police

Ghettos, camps and prisons	Bogdanovka Drohobych Ghetto Syrets concentration camp Vapniarka

Resistance and survivors	Priest's Grotto Syrets inmate revolt

Planning, methods, documents and evidence	Planning Generalplan Ost Volksliste Evidence Graebe affidavit

Concealment and denial	Sonderaktion 1005

War crimes investigations and trials	Einsatzgruppen Trial Extraordinary (Soviet) State Commission

Righteous among the Nations	Saide Arifova Omelyan Kovch Hermann Friedrich Graebe

Memorials	Babi Yar memorials List of Babi Yar victims

See also History of the Jews in Carpathian Ruthenia Transnistria (World War II)

Coordinates: 47°48′48″N 31°9′23″E / 47.81333°N 31.15639°E / 47.81333; 31.15639

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