The Ukrainian Jewish Family Album

THE PATH OF DESCTRUCTION
Львів
Lwiw
JUNE
29 TH
Iwano-Frankiwsk
Тернопіль
Ternobil
Chernivtsi
Рівне
Riwne
Біла Церква
Bila Tserkva
Хмельницький
Chmelnyzkyj Вінниця
Winnyzja
Odessa
Chernihiv
Київ
Kyiv
TH SEPT
Житомир 19 TH
Zhytomyr
Полтава
OCT
JUNE
28
Івано-Франківськ
Чернівці
From the moment the Germans and their Hungarian,
Italian and Romanian allies invaded Ukraine from the west
and south on 22 June 1941, it was clear what lay in store
for the Jewish families that did not flee eastward: death
by starvation, beatings, deportations to death camps in
German-occupied Poland (from western Ukraine), and for
well over a million men, women and children: death by
firing squad. The total: between 1.5 million and 1.6 million.
OCT
16 TH
Одеса
Чернігів
Черкаси
Cherkasy
Миколаїв
Mykolaiv
Kherson
Кременчук
Kremenchuk
Кривий Ріг
Kryvyi Rih
Херсон
Суми
Sumy
Poltava
24 TH
Дніпро
Dnipro
Запоріжжя
Zaporizhia
Харків
Kharkiv
Berdiansk
Donezk
Mariupol
Бердянськ
Донецьк
Маріуполь
Луганськ
Luhansk
The map and chart below show the progress of the
German Army, its allies and the Waffen SS in the early
months of the war. As can be seen, the vast majority of
Jews in the west of the country had no chance to flee;
the farther east they were, the better their chances to
escape.
Севастополь
Sevastopol
Ялта
Yalta
Date 28 June 29 June 25 August 19 Sept. 16 October 24 October
City Rivne Lviv Dnipro. Kyiv Odessa Kharkiv
(*occupied by
Romania, not
Germany)
Nr of Jews,
prewar
25,000 200,000
by 1941
89,000 150,000 200,961
by 1931
130,250
Nr killed
between 41-44
20,540 152,200 17,000 33,771 (by 1941) in Babyn
Yar. By the end of the
year 1943 over 50,000
Jews were killed in
Babyn Yar.
111,000 12,000
Nr fled to east Basically none 10,000 74,000 100,000 80,000–90,000 115,000
% survived 17.9% 23.9% 81% 66.7% 44.8% 90.8%
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