July 1

During the summer and early autumn of 1941, in the small borderland village known to Germans as Eichenfeld, members of German security detachments and allied auxiliaries carried out a mass killing of the village’s Jewish population. The massacre followed the rapid advance of Operation Barbarossa and fits the pattern of roundups, shootings at prepared sites, and looting seen across the occupied southern Soviet borderlands. Exact dates, victim counts, and the full list of perpetrators remain fragmentary in surviving sources; the violence left the Jewish community of Eichenfeld erased and its memory fragile. Read more