Bogdanovka concentration camp

The Bogdanovka concentration camp was a concentration camp for Jews that was established in Transnistria Governorate by the Romanian authorities during World War II as part of the Holocaust.

Location Three concentration camps were situated near the villages of , Domanovka and on the Southern Bug river, in Golta district, Transnistria with Bogdanovka holding 54,000 people by the end of 1941. This is now in the Ukrainian Mykolaiv Oblast.

Massacres In December 1941, a few cases of typhus, which is a disease spread by lice and fleas, broke out in the Bogdanovka concentration camp. 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 21 December, and was carried out by Romanian soldiers, gendarmes, Ukrainian police, civilians from Golta,A district of Transnistria, see map. and local ethnic Germans under the commander of the Ukrainian regular police, Kazachievici.Jean Ancel, "Bogdanovka", in Israel Gutman (editor in Chief), Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990), vol. 1, p. 226. 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 their necks. 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 28 December. By 31 December, over 40,000 Jews had been killed. Overall, at least 40,000-48,000, and perhaps as many as 54,000, Jews were killed in the Bogdanovka concentration camp.See "Bogdanovka", Shoah Resource Center of Yad Vashem (http://www.yadvashem.org), at https://wwv.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/microsoft%20word%20-%20103.pdf. The source estimates the number of dead at 54,000.Dennis Deletant, "Transnistria", in The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, at https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/63. The source estimates the number of dead at 43,000-48,000.See Radu Ioanid, The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of the Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000), p. 184. The source estimates the number of dead at 43,000-48,000.Julius S. Fisher, Transnistria, The Forgotten Cemetery (South Brunswick: Thomas Yoseloff, 1969), p. 122, 123, 125. The source estimates the number of dead at 48,000.According to Yahad-in-Unum (the French organization that investigates the deaths by mass shootings in the Holocaust headed by Father Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest), at https://www.yahadmap.org/#village/bogdanivka-bogdanovka-mykolaiv-ukraine.24, at least 40,000 Jews were killed at Bogdanovka. A large majority of the Jews who were killed were originally from Transnistria, but 7,000 or more were from Bessarabia.See "Bogdanovka", Shoah Resource Center of Yad Vashem (http://www.yadvashem.org), at https://wwv.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/microsoft%20word%20-%20103.pdf. Perhaps only 50 Jews who burned the bodies of the massacred Jews survived.Jean Ancel, "Bogdanovka", in Israel Gutman (editor in Chief), Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990), vol. 1, p. 227. For more information on the Holocaust in Transnistria, including on the fate of the Jewish deportees from Romania, including Bessarabia, see History of the Jews in Transnistria.

Bogdanovka concentration camp

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