The Last Jew in Vinnitsa

The Last Jew in Vinnitsa is a photograph taken during the Holocaust in Ukraine showing an unknown Jewish man—probably on 28 July 1941 in Berdychiv (Berditschew) and not Vinnitsya[1]—about to be shot dead by a member of Einsatzgruppe D, a mobile death squad of the Nazi SS.

The victim is kneeling beside a mass grave already containing bodies; behind, a group of SS and Reich Labour Service men watch.

[2] During this period there were numerous massacres of Jews in the oblast,[3] including in the town itself on 16 and 22 September 1941 and April 1942, after which those spared were sent to labour camps and Yerusalimka, Vinnitsa's Jewish quarter, was largely razed.

[6] In January 2024, German newspaper Die Welt published a work by Jürgen Matthäus that concluded the picture was taken on 28 July 1941 at the citadel of Berdychiv.

[24] The photograph was used on the cover of Agnostic Front's 1984 album Victim in Pain, liable to be interpreted as part of the Nazi chic then current in the New York hardcore scene.