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Artemivsk massacre
| Artemivsk massacre | |
|---|---|
_1.jpg) The "wailing wall" memorial to victims of the Artemivsk massacre (photographed 2019) | |
  Location of Artemivsk (Bakhmut) within Ukraine | |
| Also known as | Artemovsk massacre, Bakhmut's Babi Yar |
| Location | Artemivsk, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Bakhmut, Ukraine) 48°35′41″N 38°0′3″E / 48.59472°N 38.00083°E |
| Date | 11 January 1942 |
| Perpetrators | Einsatzgruppe C, Sonderkommando 4b |
| Victims | 1,317–3,000 |
The Artemivsk massacre, also referred to as "Bakhmut's Babi Yar",[1] was a 1942 massacre of the Jewish inhabitants of the city of Artemivsk, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (now Bakhmut, Ukraine). Somewhere between 1,200 (according to German reports) and 3,000 (according to Soviet numbers) Jews were killed or left to die within the city's alabaster mines.
- ^ Schechter, Simon (18 April 2023). "Who remembers Bakhmut's 'Babi Yar'?". Ynet. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
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