On December 14, 1941, the ghetto commissioner signed an order to relocate the Jews of Proskurov with their property to the ghetto. It was created in Jewish quarters, which were fenced off with barbed wire. The ghetto stretched from the Southern Bug River along Kamianetska Street to Podilska Street, along it to Proskurivskoho Podpillya Street and back to the Southern Bug. Jews in Proskurov began to be shot in the fall of 1941.. The death conveyor started working at full capacity a year later - in the fall of 1942. The Jews were shot in two stages. In early October, the Nazis shot the inhabitants of the ghetto, and in November 1942, the prisoners of the Jewish labor camp and the specialists who were held there were shot. Along with the local Jews in the town of Proskurov, the Jewish population of the surrounding villages was also shot.
Ukrainians compassionately helped Jews in difficult times. It is not for nothing that today in the Jewish world, among those who saved Jews during the war, the largest number of Ukrainians have been awarded the honorary Jewish distinction “Righteous Among the Nations of the World”. Their names are engraved on the Alley of the Righteous Among the Nations of the World in Jerusalem, and among them are residents of Khmelnytskyi: Maria Glavatska; Daria, Oleksandr and Volodymyr Shershuny; Evelina Larionova, Ludviga Pukas and many others.
Many Jews served in the Red Army, in partisan detachments, in undergroundi. For his exploits in the fight against fascism were awarded high government awards. Among them are our fellow countrymen, residents of Proskurov Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Weiser, brave pilot Isaac Preisesen. Streets in Khmelnytskyi are named after them.
