GENOCIDE OF THE JEWS OF WESTERN VOLYN ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE TOWN MIZOCH IN 1942.

The purpose of the researchs is to analyze the Nazi policy of the Holocaust using the example of the Volyn town of Mizoch. On the basis of historiographic and source studies, recreate the process of «solving the Jewish question», in particular, the action of October 13–14, 1942. The methodology is based on the principles of historicism and objectivity. The research was carried out thanks to general scientific and special-historical methods. The methods of scientific criticism and archival heuristics are applied. Special attention is paid to the method of oral history. Scientific novelty. On the basis of a wide range of sources, the process of the killing of Jews in Mizoch in 1942 is analyzed, and an assessment of the debatable nature of the topic of the number of victims is given. The research is based on the analysis of archival data (Ukrainian, foreign) and the interview of Holocaust witnesses conducted by the author himself. Most of these sources were introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. Conclusions. The implementation of the Holocaust in Mizoch was carried out by the method of killing Jews during the 1942 action («Holocaust by bullets»). In addition, Jews were killed during pogroms, in prisons, in ghettos and other locations; organized a hunt for those who were hiding. Members of the Ukrainian police involved in the «solution of the Jewish question» primarily performed auxiliary functions, but they shot the victims when they tried to escape. There are diferent datas on the number of Jews killed in Mizoch, but the more likely quantitative indicators are 1,700–2,300 Jews killed in October 1942. Among them, about 200 people died in the ghetto during the uprising and fire. The ghetto inmates tried to resist. Forms of physical resistance to the occupiers appeared both at the individual and group level. Jews escaped during the killing campaign, and in the ghetto they tried to organize an uprising. The behavior of local non-Jewish residents towards the victims of the Holocaust varied (from helpfulness to indifference). In some cases, they hid and saved them, in others they were assistants of the occupiers and accomplices of criminals.