1944 Soviet Extraordinary State Commission Report Fragment on Rohatyn

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Introduction

A parallel article on this website fully translates and summarizes a lengthy report by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission on crimes perpetrated in the Rohatyn district during the German occupation of World War II (1941~1944). The report was loosely assembled from more than 80 handwritten and typed pages of interviews and testimonies together with three tables of named victims, including those killed and others abducted into slavery in Germany; brief tabular and text summaries of the major crimes plus a legal declaration precede the body of the report. See the parallel article for background to the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission and its work in the Rohatyn district.

Despite the length of that report, only some of the villages in the Rohatyn district are covered, meaning victims in other villages were unnamed and uncounted. More surprisingly, while crimes committed in the city of Rohatyn are attested by five Jewish and two Ukrainian witnesses, and the victim accounting table in the report shows more than 99% of shooting deaths in the district occurred within the city, no victims in the city are listed among the more than one thousand names which appear in the district report.

A partial explanation lies in a smaller and incomplete report fragment covering Rohatyn city plus the nearby villages of Babintsi and Ruda, preserved under a separate record number in the Soviet and then Russian archive systems. This article translates and summarizes that fragment as a complement to the district report.

See the Sources section at the bottom of this page and at the bottom of the parallel article on the district report for footnotes and general references to the sections below; footnote numbering is consistent between these two articles.

The Rohatyn City Report Fragment

The report fragment translated here is a copy of State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF) record R-7021-73-65 acquired in 2009 from the Yad Vashem documents archive by Dr. Alex Feller, founder of the Rohatyn District Research Group (RDRG), an online family history organization. The full record includes only 16 microfilm images, of which two are reel section markers (not part of the report), one is a cover, and 13 are images of the report’s paper sheets. The report is in two parts: eight sheets list victims in the city of Rohatyn only and categorize their damages in a sparsely-filled table; another five sheets are typed, transcribing the Rohatyn names from the handwritten table together with the total monetary value of their damages, and adding similar names lists and damage totals for victims in Babintsi (an incorporated village just east of the Rohatyn city center) and the separate village of Ruda about 6km north of Rohatyn. No handwritten damages tables exist for Babintsi or Ruda.

The report fragment includes no testimonies, no introduction or explanation, and no certification; only names and damages are listed and counted. “Damage” in the Soviet administrative language of the era includes both personal damage (death) and property damage, e.g. theft or destruction of buildings, livestock, farm fields, orchards, vineyards, etc. Although the typewritten lists count only the total values of property damage and are silent on the fates of the named victims, the handwritten list for Rohatyn also counts for each victim the number of their family members and the family’s fate, where known/reported. See the table below, which merges the key information from the two sets of report data, and which may be sorted and searched for names and selected numbers.

The handwritten sheets are undated, but all of the typed table records which transcribe the handwritten forms are dated either “0” or 13 December 1944, several weeks earlier than most of the testimonies in the district report. It may be that this time gap in the administrative process led to the separation of the two parts of the investigation reports in the Rohatyn area.

Related Testimonies, Memoirs, and Other Historical Information

As noted throughout the parallel article on the Soviet report for the Rohatyn district, multiple postwar memoirs, video and audio testimonies, and formal and informal histories have documented the deadly events in the city of Rohatyn during the German occupation [14]. Those accounts plus the Soviet district report testimonies in the parallel article directly relate to the report fragment published here.

A lasting tragedy of the Holocaust in Rohatyn is that the names of so few of the victims are known; as noted in the next section, this Soviet report fragment helps but still falls far short of a full accounting of victims for historical and memorial purposes. Combining this Soviet list with lists from Yad Vashem and other sources still leaves the vast majority of victims in Rohatyn unnamed, and probably lost to time.

Researching and Analyzing the Report

As noted above, the GARF record R-7021-73-65 was acquired in 2009 by Dr. Alex Feller for the RDRG from the Yad Vashem documents archive [12]. Founded originally as an online Jewish descendants’ group focused on Rohatyn, the RDRG’s initial research effort was on the handwritten table of data for the city of Rohatyn. A first translation from that original Russian data to an English-language spreadsheet was made for the RDRG by Yefim Kogan, leader of the Bessarabia Special Interest Group at JewishGen and a native Russian speaker. The report images and the translated spreadsheet were then placed with related materials on the RDRG website for group study in a section on Victims of the Holocaust [13] and another on Holocaust Resources [24].

Ten years later, as part of the research by Rohatyn Jewish Heritage (RJH) on GARF record R-7021-73-13 [10] [11] for the parallel article on the district report on this website, the report fragment R-7021-73-65 was reviewed again in its entirety. Recognizing this fragment as complementary to the district report, the key data was analyzed again, corrected (where possible), and newly translated by Vasyl Yuzyshyn and Jay Osborn for presentation here. In order to expand the victims table to include the villages of Babintsi and Ruda, the overlapping data in the handwritten and typewritten tables were merged into the single table seen below. For victims in the city of Rohatyn, financial losses tied to habitable buildings are shown, as are losses in a category labeled “other (types of) damage”; for Jews and others who held no farm land, this appears to account for business inventory, furniture, and other valuable goods lost during the occupation. Not all columns of the handwritten table for the city of Rohatyn were retained in this presentation; values in sparsely-filled columns accounting for loss of livestock as well as agricultural fields, inventory, equipment, and provisions were combined with the “other” column. The full table for the city of Rohatyn is accessible in both the original Soviet sheet images and in an English-language spreadsheet version on the RDRG website as noted, if the agricultural damage amounts are of interest for further research.

The table column describing the “fate of the family” is difficult to interpret. While entries such as “moved away”, “shot”, and “all killed” are clear, families whose fate is understandably listed as “unknown” may or may not have survived, many fates are simply left blank, and one listed fate is illegible. The fate noted as “Rohatyn” appears to suggest that some or all of the family returned to the city after the German army and other officials retreated from the Rohatyn area in 1944; only 41 people were listed in this category at the time of the Soviet investigation, of which at most 4 were possibly Jewish.

Counting the Victims

Analysis shows that as a record of what happened in and around Rohatyn during the Holocaust, and to whom, this report fragment is defective in many ways. Probably the most significant defect is the very incomplete listing of the names and even the numbers of victims, in particular the thousands of Jewish ones. The 167 named Rohatyn victims are heads of household, many with several or dozens of unnamed family members sharing a similar fate, so a single name stands in for all of the individuals in sometimes very extended families. There is an even larger issue with the numbers of victims. On one hand, comparing the names of victims in villages in the district report with the summary numbers at the beginning of that report, reasonably close agreement is seen except where village names are omitted. On the other hand, the district report tallies the murdered in Rohatyn at 9800 people, while the report fragment analyzed here totals only 1461 to 1525 killed depending on how one counts families whose fates are listed either as “unknown” or illegibly; fates left blank are assumed to mean survived (only one likely Jewish name has a blank fate in the table).

One can speculate that most individual Jewish people of Rohatyn were simply not known well or at all to survivors of the occupation, especially to Ukrainians but even to the scant Jews and Poles who returned to and then remained in Rohatyn through the time of the Soviet investigation. Significantly, the listed names in the report fragment very likely omit all or nearly all Jews who came to Soviet-occupied Rohatyn and its district in the first years of the war (1939~1941) as refugees from German-occupied western Poland; their names would be even less well known to residents of the region due to their brief time in place and their transient status. Jews forcibly moved from other regional communities (including Knihynicze, Bursztyn, Bołszowce, and Bukaczowce) [1] to the Rohatyn ghetto beginning in late 1941 and substantially following the first major killing event in 1942 would be completely unknown to gentile Rohatyn residents and not well known to Jewish survivors of the ghetto liquidation.

Naming and Identifying the Victims

Limited familiarity with the victims and their cultures also led witnesses and officials to make artless omissions and errors in reporting, recording, and transcribing names, which further obscures the full and accurate history of the destruction. The table below shows numerous examples of families recorded only by surname, and a few recorded only by first names. There are also many examples in which a listed name in Russian is phonetically similar to a known local Jewish, Ukrainian, or Polish name, but something is flawed: a missing syllable, erroneous or transposed consonants, or altered vowels. Mistakes were compounded in the Soviet reporting process, as the original handwritten tables apparently proved difficult to read even for the later Soviet typist, and new errors and omissions were introduced in that stage of the record. Later reviewer/translators including both the RDRG and RJH were unable to resolve all legibility issues and likely introduced a few new errors as well.

In the table below of victims from Rohatyn, Babintsi, and Ruda, where a family surname matches one found in the martyrs list in the Rohatyn Yizkor Book (1962) [15] (and the edited and expanded version published as Remembering Rohatyn (2015 and 2019) [16]), an “M” is marked in the table. If a surname appears elsewhere in the Yizkor Book text sections or in another of the published histories of Jewish life in Rohatyn, an “H” is marked in the table. In a separate column in the table, if a family surname is among the names being actively researched by descendants in the Rohatyn District Research Group (RDRG), a “G” is marked; this column includes Jewish, Polish, and Ukrainian names. Where a question mark (?) is added to M, H, or G, it means the listed name is close to a known historical Rohatyn family surname, but we were unsure if the match should be exact.

Re-translation of the names in both lists of the Soviet report fragment gave an opportunity to reinterpret the identity of some family names. Russian spellings of Ukrainian surnames and first names were corrected by a Ukrainian native speaker who is fluent in Russian, and matched to known names in the Rohatyn region in many cases. Likely Jewish names were transliterated and then phonetically matched to common Jewish naming patterns as they are written by Jewish descendants in the diaspora, e.g. following German- or Polish-language spelling models modified for English pronunciation. In the same process, names which appeared to be misspelled or otherwise mistaken in either the handwritten or typed Russian lists were corrected, if a close match to known Rohatyn families could be discerned. We thank Dr. Alex Feller for his careful review and adjustment of many of the victims’ names tabulated here, based on his extensive knowledge of Rohatyn Jewish names.

For example, the name variously written in the Russian tables as Байдаер (which transliterates as Baidaer), Байдаф (Baidaf), and Бедер (Beder) were changed to the known Rohatyn Jewish family name Bader in the table below. In smaller changes, the name Фрухтер (Frukhter) was adjusted here to the common descendants’ spelling Fruchter, Видеркар (Viderkar) was changed to Widerker/Wiederkehr, and Айзен (Aizen), which appears twice, to Eisen. All of these names appear in the Yizkor Book martyrs list.

Some more significant changes were made here with confidence based on phonetics and known Rohatyn Jewish names. For example, the surname and first name Туртель Тауп (Turtel Taup) was changed to the surname only of Turteltaub, and the surname, first name, and patronymic recorded as Блюмен Райх Герш (Bliumen Raikh Gersh) was changed to Blumenreich Hersh.

However, names which appeared close to Rohatyn family surnames or other common Jewish names, but which would have sounded different in the original Soviet recording process, were left unmodified; an example is Алергард (Alergard), which looks very similar to the known Rohatyn Jewish name Allerhand, but because the sound is different and the r is clearly written in both versions of the Soviet table, we list the name here as Alerhard (with a ? notation to highlight its similarity to a known name).

Counting the Financial Damage

The Soviet investigators were particularly interested in accounting for damage to production and the regional economy; material losses of houses, service buildings, farm and orchard plots, livestock, crops, equipment, merchant and farm inventory, and other assets were separately converted to ruble equivalents and totaled, with the losses assigned to named heads of households. Although occasionally higher, in most cases the damage amounts determined for destroyed buildings were calculated at just under 70 Soviet rubles (SUR) per cubic meter (m^3) of building volume; this was roughly equivalent to US$13/m^3 at then-official exchange rates [23]. Thus the destroyed Barban family building of 960m^3 (probably a large two-story house and shop, based on size) was valued at SUR66,921 or US$12,628 in 1944.

For both Jews and Ukrainians in Rohatyn, often the losses in the “other” category were significantly higher than the listed value of the family home(s), and typically the “other” value was a very round number (e.g. 25,000 or 150,000); it is not clear why. Also, livestock was especially valuable in the Soviet system: a lost cow was valued at 15,000 rubles, comparable to a small house of 25 square meters. Unfortunately, half of the pages of the handwritten table entirely or almost entirely omit any entries in the “other” column, without explanation. Besides omissions, the tables also include errors in recording and in addition, making a full analysis of the financial losses difficult or impossible.

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Table: Damage and Thefts by the German Occupiers in Babintsi, Rohatyn, and Ruda

Note: The beginning of this section translates notations written on the cover of the report fragment plus the heading pre-printed on the forms used for the handwritten table covering the city of Rohatyn only. The form heading was not completed except for noting the location as Rohatyn, i.e. no dates or any names of commissioners were written. See the introductory sections above for a description of the names analysis and translation process plus other interpretations of the data presented here. The symbols <***> mean the table text was illegible.

File No. 65
Stanislav oblast, Rohatyn district
Selection in natural order
Summary list
Register from 1 to 287
Declarations from 1 to 287
Acts from the inventory from 1 to 1356
On 383 sheets

DECLARATION LIST No. 335
Dated _____ 1944. We, the undersigned, the chairman of the commission ______ and members of the commission 1. _____ and 2. _____
made this declaration: a list of the depredation and thefts by the German-fascist occupiers which caused harm to the citizens listed below
in the Stanislav region, Rohatyn district, Rohatyn city.

No.	Address	Head of Household: Surname, Name, Patronymic	M/H	G	# in Family	Fate of Family	# Killed	Building Damage, SUR	Other Damage, SUR	Total Damage, SUR
1	Babintsi	Olabei Mykhailo								38019
2	Babintsi	Nahirniak Mykhailo								16491
3	Babintsi	Tsap Mykhailo								14709
4	Babintsi	Hrushetskyi Mykhailo								64856
5	Babintsi	Konopada Kateryna								21979
6	Babintsi	Lialka Mykhailo								266057
7	Babintsi	Mahniuk? Dmytro								57254
8	Babintsi	Vohnysta Mykhailo								438688
9	Babintsi	Drib Mariia								5019
10	Babintsi	Vorobets Mykhailo								4800
11	Babintsi	Drib Mariia Dmytrivna								16356
12	Babintsi	Mohorskyi Mykhailo								15300
13	Babintsi	Perih Doska Hryhorivna								15638
14	Babintsi	Nahirniak Semen								6800
15	Babintsi	Pokripka Mariia								37039
16	Babintsi	Slyvka Vasyl								5446
17	Babintsi	Drib Anna								5228
18	Babintsi	Paianivska Mariia								37760
19	Babintsi	Ivantsiv Mykhailo Mykhailovych								5280
20	Babintsi	Ivankiv Oleksa								49000
21	Babintsi	Bilousiv Kateryna								4200
22	Babintsi	Yurkiv Anna								13802
23	Babintsi	Dzeria Hrynko								36657
24	Babintsi	Bandyna Doska								11400
25	Babintsi	Lialka Dmytro								15180
26	Babintsi	Nahirniak Mariia								56460
27	Babintsi	Tyhkyi Anton								24857
28	Babintsi	Vorobets Kateryna								23320
29	Babintsi	Verbliana Doska								4200
30	Babintsi	Mosora Mariia								9600
31	Babintsi	Nahirniak Mykhailo								161405
32	Babintsi	Slyvka Teodor								185471
33	Babintsi	Doroshenko Vasyl								57554
34	Babintsi	Hilei Anna Mykhailivna								18829
35	Babintsi	Bahinska Pavlina								37734
36	Babintsi	Matushevska Yuliia								3486
37	Babintsi	Kotovych Yuzef								99771
38	Babintsi	Leskyi Mykhailo								3399
39	Babintsi	Pyrih Mariia								15415
40	Babintsi	Marii Mariia								107881
41	Babintsi	Verbiana Mariia								10931
42	Babintsi	Khrebet Mariia								15385
43	Babintsi	Okrepka Mykola								154143
44	Babintsi	Vorobets Anna								25739
45	Babintsi	Pokripka Dmytro								101386
46	Rohatyn	Krokopynskyi Volodomyr			4	left area		8365		8365
47	Rohatyn	Vlodyk Kazymyr			5	Rohatyn		101642		101642
48	Rohatyn	Kavka Yevheniia			6	<***>		6419		6419
49	Rohatyn	Feld	M	G	25	shot	25	278840		278840
50	Rohatyn	Kirishider Leonid			24	shot	24	48797		48797
51	Rohatyn	Bader (Baidaf?)	M	G	6	shot	6	26350		26350
52	Rohatyn	Wachtel	M	G	12	shot	12	17078		17078
53	Rohatyn	Friedman	M?	G	9	shot	9	17078		17078
--	Rohatyn	Kazimierzowicz			7	Rohatyn		17078		17078
54	Rohatyn	Schneekraut	M	G	8	shot	8	31230		31230
55	Rohatyn	Widerker (Wiederkehr)	M		6	shot	6	6692		6692
56	Rohatyn	Spiegel	M	G	6	shot	6	8365		8365
57	Rohatyn	Spiegel	M	G	2	shot	2	17556		17556
58	Rohatyn	Kirschendau	M?	G?	12	shot	12	29278		29278
59	Rohatyn	Lichenstein			12	unknown		29278		29278
60	Rohatyn	Yarema			2	Rohatyn		17566		17566
61	Rohatyn	Schauder	H					83652		83652
62	Rohatyn	Olshevskyi			5	unknown		11811		11811
63	Rohatyn	Melnyk			2	Rohatyn		35133		35133
64	Rohatyn	Mosora Anton			4	Rohatyn		4182		4182
65	Rohatyn	Dudkevych Anna			4	unknown		22307		22307
66	Rohatyn	Shynkyrik			3	2 killed	2	12547		12547
67	Rohatyn	Kozłowska		G	4	unknown		4182		4182
68	Rohatyn	Kozłowska		G	6	unknown		27884		27884
69	Rohatyn	Okrepka Filomena			2	killed	2	4182		4182
70	Rohatyn	Tsikhotska			4	Rohatyn		6134		6134
71	Rohatyn	Hrushka			3	Rohatyn		3485		3485
72	Rohatyn	Palandiuk			6	unknown		8713		8713
73	Rohatyn	Menkes	M	G	5	shot	5	10456	30000	40456
74	Rohatyn	Król Karl			5	unknown		15057		15057
75	Rohatyn	Bavarind	H?	G?	3	shot	3	29278		29278
76	Rohatyn	Koval Karl			6	in 1940 in Siberia		33460		33460
77	Rohatyn	Pavlykovskyi						53517		53517
78	Rohatyn	Mykhaskiv		G				3834		3834
79	Rohatyn	Zub		G?	3	Rohatyn		12547	6900	19447
80	Rohatyn	Zub		G?				2509		2509
81	Rohatyn	Weiner Hersch			4	shot	4	3485		3485
82	Rohatyn	Bozenytsia						39018		39018
83	Rohatyn	Durst Alter	M		20	shot	20	15615		15615
84	Rohatyn	Bozenytsia						30672		30672
85	Rohatyn	Lend (Mend?)			13	shot	13	20494		20494
86	Rohatyn	Budskyza			4	shot	4	10038		10038
87	Rohatyn	Budskyza						202274		202274
88	Rohatyn	Blian Moses			6	shot	6	3485		3485
89	Rohatyn	Sonnenschein	M		15	shot	15	4321		4321
90	Rohatyn	Fiegelbaum Yosef			12	shot	12	4182		4182
91	Rohatyn	Königsberg? Sh.			16	all killed	16	62739	100000	162739
92	Rohatyn	Ainstok Samuel			6	all killed	6	4183	30000	34183
93	Rohatyn	Messing Yuda	M	G	9	all killed	9	8365	50000	58365
94	Rohatyn	Bankerfisher			26	all killed	26	133843	156275	290118
95	Rohatyn	Shates Baruch			9	all killed	9	8083	15000	23083
96	Rohatyn	Bader Moses	M	G	20	all killed	20	31369	150000	181369
97	Rohatyn	Ainstok Chaim			15	killed	15	10038	25000	35038
98	Rohatyn	Gartin Zerik	M	G	9	all killed	9	29278	100000	129278
99	Rohatyn	Kisel Mosher	M?		15	all killed	15	25095	50000	75095
100	Rohatyn	Bader Samuel	M	G	9	all killed	9	18483	50000	68483
101	Rohatyn	Rosenberg Pinkas	M	G	9	all killed	9	10108	25000	35108
102	Rohatyn	Barban	H	G	12	11 killed	11	66921	100000	166921
103	Rohatyn	Szkolnik Levin	M	G	13	12 killed	12	44614	75000	119614
104	Rohatyn	Brotleib Moses			9	8 killed	8	27884	50000	77884
105	Rohatyn	Fliang Ira			5	all killed	5	5577	25000	30577
106	Rohatyn	Zalis Moses	M?		10	killed	10	10456	30000	40456
107	Rohatyn	Karten Leon	M	G	9	all killed	9	52283	25000	77283
108	Rohatyn	Galt Wolf	M?	G?	6	all killed	6	34855	150000	184855
109	Rohatyn	Weiler Moses	M		20	all killed	20	66922	100000	166922
110	Rohatyn	Rosenberg Bankas	M	G	4	all killed	4	4183	25000	29183
111	Rohatyn	Kinsberg Schuler			7	all killed	7	58556	50000	108556
112	Rohatyn	Landau Yakov	M	G	12	all killed	12	50191	100000	150191
113	Rohatyn	Haller Hersh	M	G	13	all killed	13	62739	30000	92739
114	Rohatyn	Scharer Izydor	M	G?	12	all killed	12	41826	30000	71826
115	Rohatyn	Landau Samuel	M	G	6	all killed	6	27884	40000	67884
116	Rohatyn	Scharer Samuel	M	G?	9	all killed	9	27884	25000	52884
117	Rohatyn	Fruchter Matilda	M	G	17	all killed	17	11852	20000	31852
118	Rohatyn	Toper		G?	13	all killed	13	73196	50000	123196
119	Rohatyn	Reiss Hersh	M		18	all killed	18	65627	300000	365627
120	Rohatyn	Fisher Yosef	M		12	all killed	12	41926	150000	191926
121	Rohatyn	Rosenstein Kolman	M	G	15	all killed	15	51283	100000	151283
122	Rohatyn	Glotzer Ozdin	M	G	15	3 remain	12	33461	100000	133461
123	Rohatyn	Kerener Hersh			13	all killed	13	33461	100000	133461
124	Rohatyn	Blech Tsira	M	G	5	3 killed	3	33461	25000	58461
125	Rohatyn	Braunstein Esther	M?		8	all killed	8	50191	100000	150191
126	Rohatyn	Marena Tok			9	all killed	9	41826	100000	141826
127	Rohatyn	Horn Enos	M	G	30	all killed	30	153362	100000	253362
128	Rohatyn	Liebling Tonia	M	G	28	all killed	28	101920	150000	251920
129	Rohatyn	Andermann David		G	30	all killed	30	42840	10000	52840
130	Rohatyn	Gotlieb Leib	M	G	85	all killed	85	14000	250000	264000
131	Rohatyn	Hochberg Feivish			16	all killed	16	27884	100000	127884
132	Rohatyn	Hrushetskyi			13	left area		12600	10000	22600
133	Rohatyn	Markevych			18	left area		14140	100000	114140
134	Rohatyn	Revas		G?	19	left area		14140	10000	24140
135	Rohatyn	Libinesh Herzl			12	all killed	12	19110	10000	29110
136	Rohatyn	Gnap Chaim			15	all killed	15	15120	10000	25120
137	Rohatyn	Geitsis			12	shot	12	14639		14639
138	Rohatyn	Faivel			6	shot	6	1009	40000	41009
139	Rohatyn	Faivel			10	shot	10	14639		14639
140	Rohatyn	Zailek			8	shot	8	4182		4182
141	Rohatyn	Zonenschein	M		6	shot	6	3136		3136
142	Rohatyn	Itek Gang			2	1 shot	1	1045		1045
143	Rohatyn	Granowitter	M	G	6	shot	6	2509		2509
144	Rohatyn	Bozenytsia						5228		5228
145	Rohatyn	Scheiner Nachman	M?		6	shot	6	4182		4182
146	Rohatyn	Liankner	M?		4	shot	4	5228		5228
147	Rohatyn	Szkolnik Natan	M	G	7	shot	7	3485		3485
148	Rohatyn	Grad	H	G	4	shot	4	2090		2090
149	Rohatyn	Nuchen			4	shot	4	3346		3346
150	Rohatyn	Fuchs	M	G	14	shot	14	10456		10456
151	Rohatyn	Eisen	M	G	12	shot	12	3694		3694
152	Rohatyn	Haber	M	G	8	shot	8	36806		36806
153	Rohatyn	Itzhak			15	shot	15	23422		23422
154	Rohatyn	Hasvich Mykhailo			4	Rohatyn		70613		70613
155	Rohatyn	Zitron (Citron)	H?		15	shot	15	16730		16730
156	Rohatyn	Freiwald	H		6	shot	6	10038		10038
157	Rohatyn	Horowitz	M	G	8	shot	8	20076		20076
158	Rohatyn	Ainstok Yakub			9	shot	9	15247		15247
159	Rohatyn	Rudy			3	shot	3	4182		4182
160	Rohatyn	Babiuk Roman			4	unknown		53537		53537
161	Rohatyn	Malenka Teodora			2	Rohatyn		5576		5576
162	Rohatyn	Kudryk			2	Rohatyn		25868		25868
163	Rohatyn	Balias			3	unknown		2558		2558
164	Rohatyn	Miller	H?		1	Rohatyn		4182		4182
165	Rohatyn	Horowitz Leib	M	G	3	shot	3	6692		6692
166	Rohatyn	Kavka			2	Rohatyn		5228		5228
167	Rohatyn	Kinik Leib			5	shot	5	2136		2136
168	Rohatyn	Neriad			9	unknown		39018		39018
169	Rohatyn	Hnyda				Rohatyn		2090		2090
170	Rohatyn	Altbauer Henryk	M	G		Rohatyn		3346		3346
171	Rohatyn	Chervinska				Rohatyn		4879		4879
172	Rohatyn	Perikh Anton				Rohatyn		24537	56000	80537
173	Rohatyn	Perikh Mariia				Rohatyn		6692		6692
174	Rohatyn	Bardal Mykola				Rohatyn		4252		4252
175	Rohatyn	Perikh Mykhailo				Rohatyn		16730		16730
176	Rohatyn	Boikevych Yosyp				Rohatyn		7807	10000	17807
177	Rohatyn	Bursa				Rohatyn		21958		21958
178	Rohatyn	Hrytsai Myron		G		Rohatyn		45520	10000	55520
179	Rohatyn	Kagelberg Shama	M?	G?	18	all killed	18	28233	200000	228233
180	Rohatyn	Bauer Leon			19	all killed	19	19760	10000	29760
181	Rohatyn	Alerhard Wolf	M?		10	all killed	10	13942	10000	23942
182	Rohatyn	Faust Naftalia	M	G	20	all killed	20	22307	20000	42307
183	Rohatyn	Kronberg Chaim	H?		20	all killed	20	18822	20000	38822
184	Rohatyn	Kaufman Michael	M		12	all killed	12	8893	10000	18899
185	Rohatyn	Turteltaub	H		40	all killed	40	69710	50000	119710
186	Rohatyn	Tenenbaum T.	M	G	12	all killed	12	25514	100000	125514
187	Rohatyn	Shklerling Falik			20	all killed	20	19760	20000	39760
188	Rohatyn	Bikel Leizer			18	all killed	18	4183	10000	14183
189	Rohatyn	Brik Rachela	M		3	all killed	3	29278	20000	49278
190	Rohatyn	Tannenbaum Markus	M	G	15	all killed	15	16033	20000	36033
191	Rohatyn	Frenkel Meir			24	all killed	24	62739	20000	82739
192	Rohatyn	Blumenreich Hersh	M	G	20	all killed	20	8065	5000	13065
193	Rohatyn	Akselrad Max	M		30	all killed	30	41826	10000	51826
194	Rohatyn	Kasten Moses	M	G	8	all killed	8	28087	10000	38087
195	Rohatyn	Yarosh Aba	M?		45	all killed	45	1149215	100000	1249215
196	Rohatyn	Katz Hersh	M	G	12	all killed	12	28087	30000	58087
197	Rohatyn	Walker Itzhak	M		24	all killed	24	9411	100000	109411
198	Rohatyn	Hauzenbald Hersh			20	all killed	20	20913	30000	50913
199	Rohatyn	Eisen Moses	M	G	20	all killed	20	24399	25000	49399
200	Rohatyn	Korn	M?	G?	12	all killed	12	32461	150000	182461
201	Rohatyn	Bratspis Hersh	M	G	18	all killed	18	9411	20000	29411
202	Rohatyn	Szkolnik Levi	M	G	18	all killed	18	5019	10000	15019
203	Rohatyn	Winsher			9	all killed	9	5019	25000	30019
204	Rohatyn	Acht	H		6	3 alive	3	10735	100000	110735
205	Rohatyn	Hahrin Pylyp						22418	48640	71058
206	Rohatyn	Horodenskyi Petro						22418	88000	110418
207	Rohatyn	Sybchak Anastasiia						22418	29320	51738
208	Rohatyn	Krupka Anna						22418	50760	73178
209	Rohatyn	Kachala Yulia						30929	88280	119209
210	Rohatyn	Stakiva Yulia						22418	25000	47418
211	Rohatyn	Horotskyi Yosyp						26745	80400	107145
212	Ruda	Horodenka Kateryna Hr.								31896
213	Ruda	Kroviana Anna Al.								83162
214	Ruda	Feduniak Teodor N.								121023
215	Ruda	Makoido Olha								34996
216	Ruda	Shymberko Mariia								25662
217	Ruda	Tsapovskyi Vintsentyi								69388
218	Ruda	Zlychyniuk Zofiia								53310
219	Ruda	Petriv Anna Teod.								50500
220	Ruda	Stakhura Anna Iv.								34000
221	Ruda	Danylyshyn Ivan Z.
222	Ruda	Stakhura Kateryna								64133
223	Ruda	Doroshenko Teodor Hr.								133188
224	Ruda	Huchak Stakh F.								52140
225	Ruda	Ostaniv Ivan Mykh.								40345
226	Ruda	Kyzymka Mykhailo								47679
227	Ruda	Vehil Anna Mykhailivna								60724
228	Ruda	Okrepka Anna V.								99411
229	Ruda	Kontsiuk Mykhailo T.								136707
230	Ruda	Statskiv Mykhailo M.								198130
231	Ruda	Konchuk Mykhailo Vas.								56459
232	Ruda	Pavliuk Volodymyr								44499
233	Ruda	Tsymytsytyi Vasyl								91174
234	Ruda	Mosai Ivan And.								67125
235	Ruda	Horodetskyi Yosyp								77248
236	Ruda	Vereten Mykola P.								126676
237	Ruda	Fedunyk Vasyl N.								63216
238	Ruda	Hrymbalystyi Yulii								82916
239	Ruda	Doroshenko Ivan In.								96916
240	Ruda	Nachalo Dozalii								382560
241	Ruda	Vasylkiv Teodor								73712
242	Ruda	Hoi Teodor								136920
243	Ruda	Ostapiv Ahafiia								48725
244	Ruda	Korda Ivan Vas.								46893
245	Ruda	Korda Vasyl								63036
246	Ruda	Korda Ivan Il.								52725
247	Ruda	Yurkiv Anna M.								87685
248	Ruda	Pakirko Hryhorii								66408

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[2] Extraordinary State Commission; Wikipedia.

[3] The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution; Waitman Wade Beorn, Bloomsbury, 2018, p.76.

[4] FALQs: Soviet Investigation of Nazi War Crimes; Peter Roudik, Library of Congress blog In Custodia Legis, 2015.

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[9] The Katyn lie: Its rise and duration; Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation, 2020.

[10] Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate German-Fascist Crimes Committed on Soviet Territory from the USSR; USHMM collection RG-22.002M, accession 1995.A.1265, and finding aid; Reel 11, section 13; from 1995.

[11] Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of Jews in the Rohatyn district by the Germans and their assistants during 1941-1944; Yad Vashem document collection Item 13224740, file number JM/17303, undated.

[12] List of survivors and perished from Rogatin, prepared by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, in 12/1944: includes itemization of property damage; Yad Vashem document collection Item 6231933, file number JM/21840, undated.

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[14] See Memoirs of Jewish Life in Rohatyn; this website.

[15] See The Yizkor Book for Rohatyn: Kehilat Rohatyn v’hasviva; this website.

[16] See Donia Gold Shwarzstein’s “Remembering Rohatyn and Its Environs”; this website.

[17] Amber Nickell; Fort Hays State University faculty profile, undated.

[18] Yahad – In Unum; website, undated.

[19] NKVD; Wikipedia.

[20] See Rohatyn’s Shoah Killing Sites and Mass Graves; this website.

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