February 2025

Event Report USSR No. 101 on Babi Yar
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1941-10-02 The Einsatzgruppen Event Report USSR No. 101: Execution of “33,771 Jews in Kiev on September 29 and 30, 1941”

On October 2, 1941, Office IV of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) issued Event Report USSR No. 101 (Ereignismeldung UdSSR Nr. 101). Einsatzgruppe C reported on the massacre at the Babyn Yar (Babi Yar) near Kiev that Paul Blobel’s Sonderkommando 4a “executed 33,771 Jews in Kiev on September 29 and 30, 1941”. Meanwhile, Einsatzgruppe D stated that “between September 16 and 30, 22,467 Jews and Communists were executed, bringing the total to 35,782”.

Intercepted Telegram of January 11,1943 by Herman Höfle
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1943-01-11 The Höfle Telegram: A Report On The Death Toll of Operation Reinhard

On 11 January 1943, SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle, coordinator of Operation Reinhard(t), sent top-secret telegrams on its death toll to SS officials Adolf Eichmann at the RSHA in Berlin and Franz Heim at the Security Police in Kraków. These messages – intercepted by the British – provide precise data on the mass deportations – totaling 1,274,166 Jewish victims – to the extermination camps at Belzec (B), Sobibor (S), Treblinka (T), and the Majdanek / Lublin (L) concentration camp by the end of 1942.

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