Bila Tserkva massacre was the World War II mass murder of Jews , committed by the Nazi German '' Einsatzgruppe '' with the aid of Ukrainian auxiliaries , in Bila Tserkva , Soviet Ukraine , on August 21 – 22 , 1941 . When the Jewish adult population of Bila Tserkva was killed , several functionaries complained that some 90 Jewish children were left behind in an abandoned building , and had to be executed separately . The soldiers reported the matter to four chaplains of the Wehrmacht , who passed along their protests to Field Marshal von Reichenau ; it was the only time during World War II that Wehrmacht chaplains tried to prevent an '' Einsatzgruppen '' massacre , nevertheless Blobel 's verbal order was direct and decisive . In August 1941 , General Walther von Reichenau , commander of the 6th Army of Nazi Germany , ordered his men to assist the '' Einsatzgruppen '' and their Ukrainian auxiliaries with killing the Jews of Bila Tserkva . Over the course of the following days , virtually the entire adult Jewish population of Bila Tserkva was shot . All that remained were the children and a few of the women , who were dumped off at a school to await execution
mass murder of Jews
The Holocaust
Bila Tserkva massacre