List of massacres in Ukraine
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| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamianets-Podilskyi Massacre Kamianets-Podilskyi Massacre Kamianets-Podilskyi , a city in the western Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, was occupied by German forces during the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.... |
August 27-28, 1941 | 23,600 | ||
| Babi Yar massacre | September 29, 1941 | 33,771 | ||
| Berdychiv massacre Berdychiv Berdychiv is a historic city in the Zhytomyr Oblast of northern Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Berdychiv Raion , the city itself is of direct oblast subordinance, and is located south of the oblast capital, Zhytomyr, at around .The current estimated population is around... |
October 5, 1941 | 20,000-30,000 | ||
| Huta Pieniacka massacre Huta Pieniacka massacre The Huta Pieniacka massacre was a punitive military operation against the inhabitants of the ethnically Polish village Huta Pieniacka, located in western Ukraine, which took place on February 28, 1944. Estimates of the number of victims range from 500 to 1,200.Polish and Ukrainian historians... |
February 28, 1944 | Huta Pieniacka Huta Pieniacka Huta Pieniacka – was an ethnic Polish village of about 1,000 inhabitants, until 1939 located in Tarnopol Voivodeship, Poland... |
500-1200 | |
| Kisielin massacre Kisielin massacre Kisielin massacre was a massacre of Polish worshipers which took place in the Volhynian village of Kisielin , now Kysylyn, located in the Volyn Oblast, Ukraine... |
July 11, 1943 | Kysylyn Kysylyn Kysylyn or Kisilin is a town in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. Before World War II, it belonged to Wołyń Voivodeship in the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic.-World War II:... |
60-90 | |
| Korosciatyn massacre Korosciatyn Massacre The Korosciatyn massacre took place on the night of February 28/29, 1944, during the province-wide wave of massacres of Poles in Volhynia in World War II. Korosciatyn, which now bears the name of Krynica and is located in western Ukraine, was one of the biggest ethnic Polish villages of the... |
February 28-29, 1944 | Korosciatyn (now known as Krynica Krynica Krynica-Zdrój is a town in Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland in the Beskids mountains, inhabited by over eleven thousand people. It is the biggest spa town in Poland called The Pearl of Polish Spas; a tourist and winter sport centre. It was first recorded in 1547 and became a... ) |
150 | |
| Nikolaev Massacre Nikolaev Massacre The Nikolaev Massacre was a massacre which resulted in the deaths of 35,782 Soviet citizens during World War II, on September 16-30, 1941.... |
September 16-30, 1941 | Mykolaiv | 35,782 | |
| 1941 Odessa massacre | October 22–24, 1941 | Odessa Odessa Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,... |
25,000-34,000 | By extension, could refer to the murder of well over 100,000 Ukrainian Jews in the town and the areas between Dniestr and Bug Southern Bug The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh), is a river located in Ukraine. The source of the river is in the west of Ukraine, in the Volyn-Podillia Upland, about 145 km from the Polish border, and flows southeasterly into the Bug Estuary through the southern steppes... rivers, over the course of the Romanian and German occupation |
| Drobitsky Yar | December 15, 1941 | Kharkov Kharkiv Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was... |
15,000 | |
| Massacre of Uman Massacre of Uman The Massacre of Uman was the 1768 massacre of the Jews, Poles and Ukrainian Uniates at Uman in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by the Ukrainian rebel Haidamak army.... |
June 1768 | Uman Uman Uman is a city located in the Cherkasy Oblast in central Ukraine, to the east of Vinnytsia. The city rests on the banks of the Umanka River at around , and serves as the self-governing administrative center of the Umanskyi Raion .... |
2000-20,000, possibly 33,000 | |
| Tach Vetat | 1648-1649 | Tens of thousands (min.)to as many as 500,000 | See Jewish Casualties of Tach Vetat for discussion of various estimates of the number of murdered | |