Overview
- Historian Jürgen Matthäus reports about 99% confidence that the shooter in the image known as 'The Last Jew of Vinnitsa' was SS officer Jakobus Onnen.
- The photo’s setting has been reattributed to Berdychiv, Ukraine, on July 28, 1941, and linked to Einsatzgruppe C operations.
- Volunteers from Bellingcat conducted AI-assisted forensic comparisons using family photographs supplied after a tip to the researcher.
- Archival evidence places Onnen in the SS, including service at Dachau and deployment to the Eastern Front, and records his death in 1943.
- The identification is presented as a scholarly conclusion rather than a legal judgment, and the kneeling victim remains unnamed with further research planned.