1941-1942 DROBITSKY YAR MASSACRE (updated)

1941-1942 DROBITSKY YAR MASSACRE

The massacres of the Jewish population of the city of Kharkov, Ukraine took place from December, 1941 to January, 1942. At the end of this time frame about 16,000 people, predominantly Jews, were murdered. This page offers a time line of events:   http://www.drobytskyyar.org/index.php?form_page=1&lang=en

1. Map of Kharkov--April 1942 http://www.drobytskyyar.org/index.php?zpar=map&form_page=1322

2. "Martyrology". An alphabetical database (Russian alphabet) with many, many names.   http://www.drobytskyyar.org/index.php?form_page=32&lang=en

>click on a surname: information appears about individuals with that last name. 

>Click on  archival information boxes (white oblong boxes): Archival information, including Fond, inventory #, Case #, List #, etc. may be available with names, dates, addresses, former addresses, professions, last jobs, passport #s,etc.

You can search by surname, first name, patronymic, age, residence, profession. All information is not available for every name.

You can easily use an automatic translator, such as the one that is available with Google Chrome, if needed to translate to your language of choice. Google Chrome's add-on is terrific!  

Some of the names include:

Abel, Abo, Averbuch, Arnopolin, Ass, Ahrina, Ashkenezer

Berman, Bawer, Brandler, Balter, Brenshteyn, Brooke, Bialy, Berlyand

Weiser, Vladimir, Weiner, Bugloss, Weisberg, Wacker, Volyn, Wenger

Gabay, Gorenstein, Ginson, Garbin, Gatlin, Huberman, Goetz-Bimbad

Druck, Dogelman, Drabkin, Dimant,  Dissin, Draiman, Drigant, Deglin

Evelevich, Evelson, Elyash, Egorova, Eromitsky, Elizavetskaya

Zhevlever, Zhigalin, Zhegalin, Zhidovetsky

Zilberman, Zbar, Zebel, Zisilman, Zaets, Ziskind, Zajc, Zamsky, Zeldis

Ivry, Idlin, Itkin, Israel, Itkin, Ioddw, Izrailevich, Yonten, Imhanitsky

Kagan, Kissin, Klar, Kleiman, Kaminsky, Kaplan, Kritser, Katznelson, Koeman

Ladyzhenski, Libenson, Lieberman, Langman, Libkind, Lapshin, Lundin, Levin

Magazinnik, Mintz, Meisel, Malkin, Mitler, Meldelian, Margolin, Mereynes, Muniz

Namoyter, Nenad, Nog, Nudelman-Holstein, Nous, Nemirovsky, Neumann, Novak

Obstbaum, Okslender, Oguz, Orlov, Ozick, Olinevich, Ossetian, Odessa, Olitsky

Poliakin, Pischik, Pomeranz, Pevzner, Pecker, Perlin, Pickman,  Pinson, Peng

Relin, Rabinfayn, Ronin, Raiskin, Reich,  Rayheis, Reizan, Rachlin, Rac, Rekitor

Savran, Sorokin, Sandler, Sribner, Skrypit, Seaver, Sima, Sokolov, Sinai, Sitnikov

Tabakmaher, Temkin, Taicher, Trine, Trachtenberg, Tolchin, Tiberias, Tuchman

Urinko, Utevsky, Uman, Umansky, Uschenko, Usvatova

Yablovker, Yampolsky, Jacobson, Yahkind, Jancker, Yahmiel, Yashin, Yalina, Yavich

Please check the website for further information.

3. "Photos":  http://www.drobytskyyar.org/index.php?form_page=33

4. Documents: 

    A. "Yellow Lists": For Nazi-required registration of Kharkov city population. For Jewish registration, a printed form on yellow paper was used.  http://www.drobytskyyar.org/index.php?form_page=61&lang=en

    B. "Chronology": http://www.drobytskyyar.org/index.php?form_page=69&lang=en  

For example, this list includes: Lists of deceased orphanage children; inventory of passports found on some victims; list of apartments vacated by Jews; list of citizens in the Kaganovich district who were killed; etc.

    C. Archive of the Kharkov Forensic Morgue:  http://www.drobytskyyar.org/index.php?form_page=64&lang=en

    

    D. Map of Kharkov:  http://www.drobytskyyar.org/index.php?zpar=6&form_page=1442&lang=en

5. "Private Archives":

    A. Davydov Family Archive:  http://www.drobytskyyar.org/index.php?form_page=67&lang=en

    B. Archive of P. Sokolsky:  http://www.drobytskyyar.org/index.php?form_page=81&lang=en

    C. Archive of V. Lebedeva:  http://www.drobytskyyar.org/index.php?form_page=93&lang=en

    

    D. Archive of Yu Lyakhovitsky:  http://www.drobytskyyar.org/index.php?form_page=95&lang=en