Mass Grave Database - Based On Early Testemonies

Where vicitims are from, last know location	Ternopil
Town/county where mass grave is located	Ternopil
Mass Grave Location	Old and New Jewish Cemetery
Date of Murder	1941 July
Numer of Victims	5000
Names of Victims Mentioned
Full Testimony	[July 1941] In general, around 5,000 Jews died. [...] most of the executed were buried in a mass grave in the old Jewish cemetery, and only after two months the authorities allowed for exhumation and transportation of the bodies to a new cemetery. After one day, however, the exhumation was stopped due to the fear of an epidemic.
Testimony Number	301/20
page in longer testimony	page 5
Date of Testimony	August 8 1945
Name of Witness	Pesach Herzog
Current Country	Ukraine