In Crimea, Ukrainian nationalists handed over lists of Jews to the Germans for execution

In March 1942, on the orders of the police, I compiled lists of approximately 150 Jewish families and submitted these lists to the police. Some time after I submitted these lists, all these Jews — men, women, but mostly women with children and old people, were taken by the Germans in cars outside Simferopol and there, 10 km from the city <…> they were all shot— says the interrogation report of one of the OUN members.

He also said that he wrote a statement to the Security Service of Nazi Germany (SD) about a Jewish woman. «This woman never returned from the SD, what they did to her and her child there is unknown to me,» the accused concluded.

Another accused OUN member said during interrogation that in January 1942 he wrote a statement to the Germans about citizen Konstantinova that «She is Jewish by nationality, but in reality she was not Jewish, and he submitted this statement to the city government, after which Konstantinova was arrested by the Germans». «Konstantinova came to the city administration [Симферополя]so that she could get a job somewhere, but the head of the council accepted her by nationality as a Jew, threw her out of the council and then insisted that I write a statement against Konstantinova that she was a Jew”he explained his actions.

According to OUN members interrogated after the liberation of Crimea by Soviet troops, “the Germans shot 12 thousand Jews in Simferopol.”

The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) was an ultra-right political organization that operated primarily in Western Ukraine. To achieve its goal of creating an independent Ukraine, the OUN focused on using extremist means, including terrorist acts. During World War II, the OUN, in cooperation with German intelligence agencies, began fighting against the Soviet government.