NKVD prisoner massacre in Sambir

Quand

22 juin 1941

Type

Massacre

Morts

600

Coordonnées

49.52° N, 23.20° E

Description

Soviet war crime in 1941

1941 Soviet execution of prisoners

The NKVD prisoner massacre in Sambir was a Soviet war crime conducted by the NKVD in the city of Sambir, then located in occupied Poland. In the last days of June 1941, following the German invasion of the USSR, the Soviets executed an estimated 500 to 700 prisoners held in the Sambir prison. The majority of those executed were Ukrainians and Poles.

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