Ukraine Poland 1941 ▶ Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre (Part 2/2) by Soviet NKVD (June 41) Украина (2) by Soviet NKVD НКВД and GPU (June 41) Galicja Галичина Halytschyna Galizien Barbarossa Барбаросса
Part 2: Sambir Самбір / Drohobytsch Дрогобич; Oblast Lwiw Lviv Lemberg
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Ukraine: Ethnic Germans murdered at a Ternopil GPU prison, as German troops approached, are being identified by their relatives on July 10, 1941
Berezhany (Brzeżany in pre-war Poland) near Ternopil (Tarnopol): between June 22 and July 1 the crew of the local NKVD prison executed approximately 300 Polish citizens, among them a large number of Ukrainians.
Donetsk Rutchenkovo Field
Dubno (in pre-war Poland): All the prisoners in Dubno's three-story prison, including women and children, were executed.
Ivano-Frankivsk (Stanisławów in pre-war Poland): Over 500 Polish prisoners (including 150 women with dozens of children) were shot by the NKVD and buried in several mass graves at Dem'ianiv Laz.
Kharkiv tragedy: 1,200 prisoners were burned alive.
Lutsk (Łuck in pre-war Poland): After the prison was hit by German bombs, the Soviet authorities promised amnesty to all political prisoners, in order to prevent escapes. As they lined up outside they were machine-gunned by Soviet tanks. They were told: "Those still alive get up." Some 370 stood up and were forced to bury the dead, after which they were murdered as well. The Nazi foreign ministry claimed 1,500 Ukrainians were killed while the SS and Nazi military intelligence claimed 4,000.
Lviv (Lwów in pre-war Poland): the massacres in this city began immediately after German attack, on June 22 and continued until June 28, culminating in the Lviv pogroms. The NKVD executed several thousand inmates in a number of provisional prisons. Among the common methods of extermination were shooting the prisoners in their cells, killing them with grenades thrown into the cells or starving them to death in the cellars. Some were simply bayoneted to death. It is estimated that over 4000 people were murdered that way, while the number of survivors is estimated at approximately 270. A Ukrainian uprising briefly forced the NKVD to retreat, but it soon returned to kill the remaining prisoners in their cells. In the aftermath, medical students described the scene at one of the prisons: "From the courtyard, doors led to a large space, filled from top to bottom with corpses. The bottom ones were still warm. The victims were between 15 and 60 years old, but most were 20-35 years old. They laid in various poses, with open eyes and masks of terror on their faces. Among them were many women. On the left wall, three men were crucified, barely covered by clothing from their shoulders, with severed male organs. Underneath them on the floor in half-sitting, leaning positions – two nuns with those organs in their mouths. The victims of the NKVD's sadism were killed with a shot in the mouth or the back of the head. But most were stabbed in the stomach with a bayonet. Some were naked or almost naked, others in decent street clothes. One man was in a tie, mostly likely just arrested."
Sambir (Sambor in pre-war Poland): 570 killed.
Simferopol: on October 31, the NKVD shot a number of people in the NKVD building and in the city prison.
Yalta: on November 4, the NKVD shot all the prisoners in the city prisons.
Soviet statistics for 78 Ukrainian prisons:
evacuated 45,569
killed inside the prisons 8,789
killed runaways 48
killed legally 123
killed illegally 55
left alive 3,536
Russia
Oryol: In September 1941, over 150 political prisoners (among them Christian Rakovsky, Maria Spiridonova, Olga Kameneva and Dmitri Pletnyov) were executed in Medvedevsky Forest near Oryol.

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