Skalat, an old building from the camp of the city, of which a hundred of the 500 Jewish prisoners were saved by an attack by the Allies.

A team from Yahad is conducting its investigations in the Ternopil region. This visit is mainly focused on searching for camps designed for the very large Jewish population in the region. After a little less than ten days, we investigated eight camps (Maksymovka, Romanove Selo, Kamianki, Stoupki, Stoupki 2, Skalat, Novosilka), not one of which was mentioned in the German or Soviet archives, and we questioned more than thirty people who were witnesses to them.

Grimaïlov, Stanislav (96 years old) refused to participate in a pogrom organized by the Wehrmarcht.

To date, it seems certain to us that these camps are based around the railroad line and the route connecting Temopil to Vinnitsia, essential to the German war effort. They are distinguishable by several recurring and characteristic aspects: the Jewish prisoners of the camp are systematically exterminated inside the camp; the majority of the detainees are men, Jewish women being kept in particular buildings and having to look after the affairs of prisoners and guards; in many cases, the camp is placed under the guard of Jewish police.

Grimaïlov, a pond on the bank of which 500 Jews from the village were shot on July 5, 1941.

The bodies of victims buried in pits almost always underwent exhumation and cremation organized by the Nazi authorities (Operation 1005). Ultimately, our investigation brought to light the complete lack of efforts to hold executions and cremation of the secret corpses: we found two of the many villagers in the Kamianki camp, one ordered to carry the wood necessary to burn the bodies, the other to take out the bodies with a farm hook. In the village of Veliki Gloubotchek, the villagers were ordered to gather the bodies of escaped Jews, shot on the way to execution, and to pile the cadavers with wood in preparation for the cremation of the bodies, proof of the Nazi barbarity.

Veliki Gloubotchek, Emelian shows the private garden in which there rest today more than 300 Jews who were detained in the camp of the village, shot, and then burned.

We also managed to find witnesses who would agree to speak about pogroms: four people recounted the execution of nearly a third of the Jewish population of the village of Grimaïlov. These accounts reveal several important and troubling elements: its exactions of several hundreds of Jews took place near the beginning of the month of July 1941. They were instigated and, in part, led by the newly arrived Wehrmacht. Finally, the latter encouraged the civil Ukrainian population to take part in the shootings, some people agreeing to it, others refusing, which Stanislav, born in 1913, directly witnessed.