The last Jew in Vinnitsa [1941]


Picture from an Einsatzgruppen soldier’s personal album, labelled on the back as “Last Jew of Vinnitsa, it shows a member of Einsatzgruppe D is just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941. All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas were massacred at the time.

The last Jew in Vinnitsa [1941]

Photographer: Unknown
Source: USHMM

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Tejvan says:

So many people watching as well. A tragic period

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 12:12 pm"  
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 12:37 pm"  
Felipe Barreira says:

An awfull period represented by an power and terrifing picture. Images like that turn our minds to reflections about prejudice, violence and tolerance.

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 2:02 pm"  
VeronicasLore.com » The last Jew in Vinnitsa [Pic] says:

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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 6:18 pm"  
Christian says:

Seems this period is showing up again, but this time somewhere else: justiceforno...

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 7:11 pm"  
RJH says:

THe sad thing is this photo is in no way unique. I’ve never seen it before, but I’ve seen countless others which, except for the specifics, are exactly the same. Hatred ultimately always shows the same face.

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 7:33 pm"  
CogeDinero.com » Blog Archive » El último judío de Vinnitsa [img] says:

[…] » noticia original […]

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 7:59 pm"  
wfp says:

Indecent / racist / fascist / ethnic or any offensive language will not be tolerated !

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 9:41 pm"  
Marshall Lentini says:

That isn’t a Jew, anyway. Disappointing, isn’t it?

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 9:47 pm"  
mastro says:

nos vemos en el infierno…

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 9:55 pm"  
g says:

only the dead men will see the end of war.

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 9:58 pm"  
Manuel Montoya says:

A daily image on Iraq this days, the power have many symbols, sometimes a Swastika, sometimes the Mickey Mouse ears.

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 10:21 pm"  
Marc says:

This image is sickening because it demonstrates a complete disdain for human life. Unfortunately, it is not necessary to go back 60 years in the past, or to check elsewhere to find a similar disdain here, today.

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 10:39 pm"  
AlexB says:

Those are the days when other people besides America wanted to rule the world, a “pure world”, a sad period from history ..

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 10:52 pm"  
Amalek says:

Bad fake.

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 11:59 pm"  
Una-alta… - eL Lunes says:

[…] studentii plictisiti, intre doua instante la WoW si o raita prin Second Life? -Si in cele din urma, o fotografie cutremuratoare, al carei titlu, “Ultimul evreu din Vinnitsa”, spune totul… Sa ne ajute sa nu […]

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 at 1:08 am"  
doctor_shim says:

Only highlights what wonderfully efficient killing machines we are, given enough motivation. The eyes of the soldier holding the gun show hatred, but not even he earnestly knows why he’s doing it.

‘Ironic’, ‘morbid’, ’sad’, and ’sickening’ are words we came up with after all!

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 at 1:38 am"  
Samet Çalışkan says:

so terribleeee

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 at 1:52 am"  
Samet Çalışkan says:

What a terrible to know coming of die after 3 second…:(

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 at 2:10 am"  
Einstein gulf says:

All this has happened before, and all this will happen again :( , Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 at 6:58 am"  
Rollo Jenkins says:

Duck!!

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 at 5:14 pm"  
michael demery says:

seems everyone still refuses to ask what the motive was. Hitler’s love of power overshadowed a hate for the jews. He was trying to eliminate the Baha’u'llah. See if you can figure that out.

Friday, July 6th, 2007 at 2:23 am"  
Janos says:

As mentioned by Marshall Lentini, the man in the picture is not a Jew, but a Russian Communist; add to that the fact that he is being shot by an Ukrainian Nationalist.

Friday, July 6th, 2007 at 7:46 pm"  
Jerry’s Blog–Because Wit Happens » The Last Jew In Vinittsa says:

[…] got this one from here. « A Pill To Wipe Out Specific Bad Memories? […]

Monday, July 9th, 2007 at 2:32 pm"  
Mária Santos Neves says:

So sad, sad, sad… And this is just one of many other photos which show that tragic period of our History.

Monday, July 9th, 2007 at 4:55 pm"  
Why did it happen? says:

Why did the Einsatzgruppen shoot that man in the ditch? I ask this because given that this shooting took place in the former USSR, it’s possible that the man being shot in the ditch is 1 of Stalin’s Commissars executed as a result of the Commissar Order.

Stalin’s Commissars were bad just as Nazis were bad. In a small # of cases the Nazis did kill bad people-Stalin’s Commissars. Incidentally, a # of Stalin’s henchmen were Jewish.

Monday, July 9th, 2007 at 5:51 pm"  
candy says:

I like each picture.

Saturday, July 14th, 2007 at 3:59 pm"  
History Repeats itself says:

Seems like this is going to start happening in a current time period by a very empire like country?

Saturday, July 14th, 2007 at 9:16 pm"  
Omid says:

So abhorring. Amazing things happen under God’s skies. Why is the man being killed? It is so stupid, so disgusting.

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 at 12:32 pm"  
Josef says:

This photo is a fake, sorry. The people in background is added, and the proportions between the jew and the SS soldier(??) is not correct. Not exist any photo of the massacre, only a posteriory and onde question: Why this photo for the SS?

Thursday, July 19th, 2007 at 7:34 pm"  
Western man is a disease at hagerty.net says:

[…] Never forget. […]

Saturday, August 25th, 2007 at 10:31 pm"  
Joe says:

USA = police state

home.comcast...

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 at 10:30 pm"  
Kathy says:

sometimes we need darkness to know the light

Friday, October 19th, 2007 at 1:53 pm"  
Lew says:

Amazing photo, very shoking and sad at the same time though. Human nature is too do this sort of thing I guess, sad but very true.

Thursday, October 25th, 2007 at 9:10 pm"  
therealrob says:

humans are f%$#in’ stupid.

Sunday, October 28th, 2007 at 9:27 am"  
yeauhh says:

thats just dumb!

Monday, November 5th, 2007 at 7:26 pm"  
Sosukea says:

i agree with therealrob, if the onlything we can agree on is “NO” then what is the point of our existant?

Monday, November 5th, 2007 at 9:01 pm"  
Bloodstone says:

Russian Communist or not…still…

Friday, November 9th, 2007 at 4:43 am"  
anon says:

Maybe sometimes these things need to happen… as is evidenced by the fact that they do.

Saturday, November 10th, 2007 at 12:31 pm"  
john says:

This photo shows the ignorance of hatred and how helpless one is when hatred is ganged up on 1 individual. It gives us a picture to give us a better perspective on morality in the future. This is a sad photo.

Sunday, November 18th, 2007 at 11:59 am"  
GPT says:

Hmm, Josef.. Still denying, eh?

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007 at 4:20 am"  
Heath says:

This is a picture of evil.

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 at 7:40 pm"  
marcus says:

That picture is horrendous, vile and evil. I am American and Black, and the images of chard and castrated Black American victims of racist murder are prolific in my nation. In these pictures there can be seen women and even children who participated in these horrible crimes against humanity. Unlike the Nazis these murderers still live among us and have gone unpunished.

Today if you were to holler the word Jew, in a context devoid of any racist connotation you may find yourself branded with “The Scarlet Letter,” to in any way denounce the brutality racist apartheid regime (I believe Jimmy Carter and Nelson Mandela) in Israel can make you subject to death threats. Don Imus was fired for calling a team of Black women “nappy headed ho’s “ and little more than a year before was accused by two of his writers of being hired by him to “write nigger jokes” This man has been allowed to spew racist hate speech against Black Americans for decades and the most powerful political and media figures in this country have made Hajji to his studio.

Hundreds of thousands of American Indians live in (reservation / concentration) slow death camps.
I truly feel that World War II was Europe’s “chickens commin home to roost” for 500 years of The West pouring the blood of multitudes of darker people into the soil to which a “whites only” harvest was reaped.

I challenge you to ask yourself, were that a pile of Black or Asian humans would you be just as repulsed? Do the piles of Rwawandan bodies and Dafur bodies offend you as? Do you remember My Lai?

The Jews are safe in the western world though the situation in Israel/ Palestine may very well cause some Jews to again taste the bitter “Grapes of Wrath”.
But we Dark people of the world are still subject to exterminationist racism

Harken, what I say, until there is JUSTICE (fairness and equity) Universal.
“The Grim Reaper” will not discriminate.

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 at 10:04 am"  
GOD says:

pull the trigger

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 at 6:43 pm"  
warren says:

look into the eye of the man to be shot.

what do you think was he thinking or feeling at that time?

it’s the most sad and heart trembling image i’ve ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday, February 1st, 2008 at 5:01 am"  
karasindo says:

I can tell you

this is a look of a man saing
“remmber me”

how do I know

this is what my grandmother father told her just before the German killed him

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 at 3:27 pm"  
Rachel E. says:

The most inhuman, gruesome and horrifying period ….i really dont comprehend why the germans killed so many jews…its so sad….

Monday, March 24th, 2008 at 7:29 pm"  
christoph says:

Did you know the Einsatzgruppen were recruited from the jails of Germany? Most of them were convicted criminals. Doesn’t take much, does it? The man about to die is the only one who will live forever.

Saturday, April 5th, 2008 at 9:12 pm"  
GODDESSBRT says:

I THINK MOST ”imporantly” that this picture expresses alot as well into sadness and a dramatic time i dnt understand why did they kill so many jews,it’s so sad

Monday, April 21st, 2008 at 8:34 am"  
shazzab24 says:

Just devestating and STILL hard to comprehend

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 at 12:57 am"  
Colin says:

This forgotten soul, lost in the shadow of time, ebbing away into emptiness. His Father and Mother who once breathed the same air as you and I; his hopes and dreams; his children, wife or girlfriend, the suffering endured; why so much hate; why so much torment towards an innocent victim of life? And the story continues with more insanity; more wars in the name of peace. I hope that there is an ultimate justice; a place in which all the perpetrators pay for the despair they inflicted and evil they done.

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 at 12:18 pm"  
Kyle says:

This picture just completely breaks me down; look at his face, it’s completely fearless, and his eyes are still filled with strength. That was definitely a tragic period in human history, and when we the humans still fought for our stupid disdain for other religions.

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 at 12:47 pm"  
mohamed says:

thats an acceptable no relgion said that but human nature can make any thing we don’t said that man jewish or not but that man a human being so we must respect him and that happend now in phalastin and that made in israel

Saturday, May 10th, 2008 at 11:56 pm"  
Sean says:

I wanna see how many people comment against this, as a little experiment, lets see.

The Holocaust never happened, it was sick idea used by the Americans to gain support against the Germans.

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 3:26 am"  
FRASER says:

Don’t think too much about the holocaust not existing… think about what major death events such as those of the wars, plagues, and the holocaust if you wish. In these events, the number of people that died is immense… I am in Australia, and we are not subjected to any of these events, bar the wars, where we didn’t even face real tragedy… But today, we are running out of resources, and the planet can no longer support our way of life… By 2020, we will all go hungry… if it weren’t for major death events such as those above, how would we manage to suport an extra billion people??? there are only something like 6 billion people in the first place… We need not to think too much about other people’s deaths, for none of us get out alive in the end… There is really nothing we can do to stop people from dying… it is a simple matter of survival… some aren’t so good at it… but also… you should pity yourself… for your life may be worse if you ever get to an old age… how much more pollution and starvation will there be??? how much inflation will we experience??? everything is going to blow out of proportion and then we will know what a tragedy is!!!

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 at 7:42 am"  
maryam says:

That’s terrible.A tragic period.

Monday, June 9th, 2008 at 12:50 pm"  
Ali says:

Hitler isn’t considered a human in my opinion. Nobody deserves this!

Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 6:44 am"  
Mikey Reilly says:

If you deny the Holocaust, then you can rightfully call yourself “evil”.

Saturday, July 26th, 2008 at 11:08 pm"  

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