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Bogdanovka
was an extermination camp that the Romanian occupation authorities
established in the village of that name on the Bug River, in the
Golta district of Transnistria. In the middle of December 1941, when
several cases of typhus were discovered in the camp, a joint
decision was made by Fleisher the German advisor to the Romanian
administration of the district and Romanian District Commissioner:
Col. Modest Isopesco , to murder all the inmates. Participating in
this operation were Romanian soldiers and gendarmes, Ukrainian
police and civilians from Golta, and local ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche)
under the commander of the Ukrainian regular police, Kazachievici.
The Aktion began on December 21. Some 5,000 ill and disabled
prisoners were gathered in barns that were set ablaze. The remaining
Jews were arranged in rows of 300-400, led to a forest near the
camp, and shot in the neck. The four-day operation resulted in the
murder of 30,000 Jews. The remaining Jews, waiting their turn in
bitter cold, dug pits with their bare hands and packed them with
frozen corpses. Thousands of Jews froze to death. The murders were
halted on Christmas Eve and resumed on December 28. By the evening
of December 31, the last 11,000 Jews were also dead. |
