On August 27-29, 1941, approximately 23,600 Jewish men, women, and children were shot on the outskirts of the city. This is the first major massacre of this scale of entire Jewish families, two months after the start of Operation Barbarossa. Some of the victims were Jews from the territories under Hungarian administration, in particular from Transcarpathia. Budapest had expelled them from July 15, 1941: the National Central Authority for the Control of Foreigners (KEOKH) had been responsible for verifying Hungarian nationality, but many Jews from Transcarpathia who had fled from Galicia to Hungary during WWI and were now stateless. The deportation was not limited to this region, but also affected Jews from Budapest and Jewish refugee from Germany and Austria. The expulsions were organized towards the south of eastern Galicia, then under Hungarian control. On August 1, 1941, the entire area fell into the General Government of Poland. The Nazi authorities pushed these deported Jews further east, to the town of Kamianets-Podilskyi, occupied by German and Hungarian military forces. With a view to setting up a civil administration as of September 1, and on the pretext of the deterioration of sanitary conditions linked to the flow of Jewish refugees, the OKH organized a meeting on August 25, which resulted in the decision to execute Jews from Hungary. For the organization of the shooting, Friedrich Jeckeln, HSSPF Russland-Süd, mobilized German police battalions, as well as local Ukrainian police. Bomb craters outside the city were laid out and used as mass graves. On August 27, approximately 11,000 Jews – men, women and children – were massacred. Then more than 10,000 local Jews. At the end of the shootings, villagers from the surrounding area were requisitioned to fill the pits.

This massacre represents a turning point in the extermination of the Jews in the occupied Soviet territories and deserves in many respects an in-depth study. Who were the Jewish victims of the Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre? How did the deportation policy of the Hungarian authorities unfold? What role did the Hungarian army play in this shooting? Which authorities participated? How does it fit into the timeline of the extermination of Eastern Jews? How was the local population involved? What are the sources to document these executions? What memories remain? What are the traces today of this massacre?

Articles on the following topics are particularly welcome:
- The identity and origin of the Jewish victims
- Policies towards refugees in Eastern Europe between 1914 and 1945
- The Hungarian deportation policy of the summer of 1941
- German influence on Hungarian deportation policy in the summer of 1941
- The perpetrators
- The sources
- Transnational memory conflicts
- The importance of the massacre in the general context of the Shoah

Please submit abstracts of 500 words and a short bio until June 30, 2023, to the following e-mail address: eehs@degruyter.com. Authors will be notified of acceptance shortly after. The language of submission is English or Ukrainian.