What the records say
- When
- 1 Feb 1943
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 596
- Coordinates
- 48.28° N, 37.18° E
- Description
- Soviet war crime in Pokrovsk, Ukraine
Placed at the town its title names, Grishino.
Massacre of Grishino
Soviet war crime in Pokrovsk, Ukraine
The massacre of Grischino was committed by the Red Army in February 1943 in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, earlier named Postyschevo, Krasnoarmeyskoye, and Grishino. The massacre followed the capture of the town by the advancing Soviet army. A total of 596 prisoners of war, nurses, construction workers and female communication personnel (Nachrichtenhelferinnen) were killed.
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