Nikolev Massacre
LocationMykolaiv (also known as Nikolaev), Ukraine
Kherson, then in the Soviet Union
DateSeptember 16-30, 1941
PerpetratorsEinsatzgruppe D under command of Otto Ohlendorf
Victims35,782 Soviet civilians, mostly Jews
DocumentationEinsatzgruppen document "Jews and Communists", October 2, 1941.
evidence at Nuremberg trials NO-3137
NotesEinsatzgruppen Trial

The Nikolaev Massacre was a massacre which resulted in the deaths of 35,782 Soviet citizens, most of whom were Jews, during World War II, on September 16–30, 1941. It took place in and around the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv (also known by its Russian name, Nikolaev) and the neighboring city of Kherson in (current) southern Ukraine (then Soviet Union). The massacre was carried out by German troops of Sonderkommando 11a and Einsatzkommando 12, which were subunits of Einsatzgruppe D under the command of Otto Ohlendorf.[1][2][3] The killings were committed by many of the same troops who carried out the massacre at Babi Yar, and the victims were counted and described in an Einsatzgruppen document dated October 2, 1941 as "Jews and Communists".[4] This document was entered into evidence at the Nuremberg Trials as NO-3137.[4]

Nine of the perpetrators were tried by a Soviet military court in January 1946. Seven of them were sentenced to death and publicly hanged on 17 January 1946. The other two each received 20-year sentences.[2][5] Ohlendorf was prosecuted by an American military court in the Einsatzgruppen trial and sentenced to death. He was executed in 1951.

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  1. ^ Lapidot Hemme, Amira (2012). "Jewish History of Mykolayiv (Nikolayev), Kherson Gubernia". JewishGen. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Murder Story of Nikolayev Jews in Temvod". @yadvashem. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  3. ^ Browning, Christopher R. (2012), "NIKOLAEV AND DNEPROPETROVSK REGIONS (GENERALKOMMISSARIATE NIKOLAJEW UND DNJEPROPETROWSK)", in Dean, Martin; Hecker, Mel (eds.), The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume II, Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe, Indiana University Press, pp. 1613–1636, doi:10.2307/j.ctt2050wk1.26, ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7, JSTOR j.ctt2050wk1.26, retrieved 2022-11-13
  4. ^ a b Gilbert, Martin (1987). The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War. London: Macmillan Publishers. pp. 206, 849. ISBN 9780805003482.
  5. ^ Müller, Klaus-Dieter; Schaarschmidt, Thomas; Weigelt, Andreas; Schmeitzner, Mike (2015). Todesurteile sowjetischer Militärtribunale gegen Deutsche (1944-1947): eine historisch-biographische Studie (in German). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 42. ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5.

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