What the records say
- When
- 11 Jan 1942
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 48.59° N, 38.00° E
- Description
- Holocaust massacre in Artemivsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Bakhmut, Ukraine)
Artemivsk massacre
1942 massacre of Jews in Artemivsk, Ukraine, Soviet Union (now Bakhmut, Ukraine)
The Artemivsk massacre, also referred to as "Bakhmut's Babi Yar", was a 1942 massacre of the Jewish inhabitants of the city of Artemivsk, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. Somewhere between 1,200 and 3,000 Jews were killed or left to die within the city's alabaster mines.
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