Einsatzgruppen massacres against Jews and other civilians in Kharkov, 1941

On October 24, 1941, German forces captured the city of Kharkov in Ukraine.

In December 1941, they began the mass murder of Jews in Kharkov. 

On December 14, 1941, a German military commander issued orders for the Jewish population of Kharkov to be moved to the outskirts of the city, where they were to be shot. The Germans constructed a ghetto in the area for the Jews. On December 15, 1941, 15,000 Jews and other "undesirables" were killed in Drobytsky Yar. The massacres were performed by Einsatzkommando 4a.

On December 28, 1941, the Nazis burst into the ghetto and killed about 60 people. Anna Yosifovna Chernenko-Nazvich, a survivor of the ghetto, states that occurrences like this were common.

When the Red Army liberated Kharkov, there were almost no Jews left. Most of them had been massacred by the Nazis. 

SOURCES:

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/evidence-on-the-killing-of-jews-in-kharkov

Bazyler, Michael J.; Tuerkheimer, Frank M. (2014). Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust, pp. 18

Bazyler, Michael J.; Tuerkheimer, Frank M. (2014). Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust, pp. 21