A series of mass graves were discovered in 1997 , with exhumations completed by 2013 . Originally thought to be an example of NKVD mass murder , similar to the Katyn massacre and the Vinnytsia massacre , the Volodymyr-Volynskyi murders were shown in 2012 to have been carried out by German forces , most likely the Einsatzgruppen C , . The primary archeological evidence for German culpability was that most of the bullet shell casings were dated 1941 ( and were from a German factory ) . Testimony by a Jewish survivor of the city , recorded by the USC Shoah Foundation corroborated the view that the perpetrators were German and that the victims were primarily Jewish . Anthropological analysis of the remains led to the conclusion that three quarters of the victims were women and children . The 747 victims were reinterred in local city cemeteries
Vinnytsia massacre
Vinnytsia massacre
Volodymyr-Volynskyi