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| Keywords: SDpreparing.jpg SD officers prepare to hang Mosche Kogan left and Wolf Kieper on the market square in Zhitomir Mosche Kogan and Wolf Kieper were arrested by the SD at the beginning of August 1941 for being members of the Soviet regional court At the same time the local German army commander ordered the arrest of more than 400 Jewish men They were held under SS guard until a gallows could be erected in the market square of Zhitomir On August 7 members of the propaganda company attached to the 6th Army issued a public announcement that Kieper and Kogan would be hanged in the market square The 400 Jews arrested by the army were made to watch the hanging and afterwards were taken to the Pferdefriedhof horse cemetery outside Zhitomir where they were shot by the SD and German troops USHMM Photograph 17540 http //inquery ushmm org/uia-cgi/uia_doc/photos/3431 hr null 1941-08-07 Author Public domain unknown Einsatzgruppen operations Sicherheitsdienst Zhytomyr National Socialist crimes Zhytomyr August 1941 Zhytomyr Execution by hanging in World War II History of Zhytomyr | ||||
