NKVD prisoner massacre in Zolochiv

When

Jun 1941

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

650

Coordinates

49.80° N, 24.91° E

Description

Soviet war crime committed in June 1941

The NKVD prisoner massacre in Zolochiv was a Soviet war crime conducted by the NKVD in the city of Zolochiv, then in occupied Poland and now in Ukraine. In the last days of June 1941, following the German invasion of the USSR, the Soviets executed an estimated 650 to 720 prisoners held in the Zolochiv prison.

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