DMITROVKA
[End Page 1764] Pre-1941: Dmitrovka, village, Bogodukhov raion, Khar’kov oblast’, Ukrainian SSR; 1941–1943: Dmitrowka, Rear Area, Army Group South (rückwärtiges Heeresgebiet Süd); post-1991: Dmytrivka, Khar’kiv oblast’, Ukraine
Dmitrovka is located about 7 kilometers (4 miles) northwest of Bogodukhov. German armed forces of the 6th Army occupied the village on October 16, 1941. Soon after this date, over the course of three or four days, all the Jews remaining in Dmitrovka and the surrounding villages were rounded up and placed in one of the barns of a kolkhoz. This barn actually served as a temporary ghetto for the Jews. Jews deemed fit for work were used each day to perform road construction work. After a few days, the girls were raped by groups of soldiers, and all the Jews, at least 40 people, were shot.
SOURCES
Report of the senior instructor of the Po liti cal Section of the 5th Guards Tank Army to the head of the Political Section of the 5th Guards Tank Army on August 16, 1943 (TsGAMORF, Collection of the 5th Guards Tank Army, 4982-35, p. 418), published in F.D. Sverdlov, ed., Dokumenty obviniaiut. Kholokost: Svidetel’stva Krasnoi Armii (Moscow, 1996), p. 54.
