Obodovka, Ukraine

 

General

    Obodovka was a town in the Vinnitsa district of the Ukraine.  When the Germans captured the town on July 28, 1941, they attached it to a newly created area called the Transnistria.  This area was the region in the western Ukraine, between the Bug River in the east, the Dniester in the west, the Black Sea in the south, and a line beyond Mogilev in the north, which was captured by German and Romanian forces in the summer of 1941.  Hitler turned the area over to Romania as a reward for its alliance with the Germans.  Before the war, the Jewish population of the Transnistria was about 300,000.  A significant number of these Jews were killed by Einsatzgruppe D (see Einsatzgruppen), and German and Romanian forces.  Beginning in September, 1941, over 150,000 persons, primarily Jews, were deported from the Romanian areas of Bessarabia, Bukovina, and northern Moldavia.  Over 9,000 of these Jews were confined to a ghetto in Obodovka.  Most of these Jews died from starvation and disease.

Postcard

    Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a postcard from the Jewish ghetto in Obodovka to the Jewish community in Chernovtsy, postmarked October 5, 1942, and received in Chernovtsy on October 8, 1942.  Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Postcard" in the left frame to return.

 

References

Spector, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, P. 923

Gutman, Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, P. 1473-76

http://www.romanianjewish.org/en/cap6.html

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