Makeshift bridge in Simferopol after its capture by German troops, 1941. Simferopol was the capital of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Crimea, Soviet Union. In Crimea, Einsatzgruppe D carried out systematic mass murders of the Jewish population and the Roma living there. In November 1941, all the inhabitants of the ‘Gypsy quarter’ were registered and on 9 December they were driven out of the city in groups by lorry and shot.
The photograph comes from the ‘Krasove Krakow-Warsaw Publishing House’ collection.
