The NKVD prisoner massacre in Lutsk was a Soviet war crime conducted by the NKVD and NKGB in the city of Lutsk, situated in occupied Poland (present-day...

The NKVD prisoner massacres were a series of mass executions of political prisoners carried out by the NKVD, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs...

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 (now in Ukraine)...

The NKVD prison massacres in Lviv were a mass murder of prisoners held in Lviv prisons and detention centers, carried out by Soviet NKVD and NKGB officers...

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...

The NKVD prisoner massacre in Dubno was a Soviet war crime conducted by the NKVD in the city of Dubno, then in occupied Poland and now in Ukraine. Between...

The NKVD prisoner massacre in Berezhany was a Soviet war crime conducted by the NKVD in the city of Berezhany, then in occupied Poland and now in Ukraine...

Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war...

for Ukraine The NKVD and Nazi massacres are mentioned in the Prix Goncourt awarded novel The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell. Lutsk is a location taken...

Vinnytsia massacre was the mass execution of between 9,000 and 11,000 people in the Ukrainian town of Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD during the...

list of massacres in that country. List of massacres in Russia List of massacres in Ukraine List of massacres in Belarus List of massacres in Lithuania...

department of NKVD (later MVD) in charge of handling of foreign civilian internees and POWs (prisoners of war) in the Soviet Union during and in the aftermath...

of the prison, carried out by the NKVD after the German invasion of the USSR, began on June 24, 1941. The prisoners were formed into several marching...

about prisoners being walled alive, which is repeated in the accounts of many witnesses of the NKVD prisoner massacres, most probably had its source in rumors...

were executed except Rakovsky and two others (who were killed in NKVD prisoner massacres in 1941). Despite the promise to spare his family, Bukharin's wife...

southwestern border of the Russian Empire. Important cities include Rivne, Lutsk, Zviahel, and Volodymyr. Ukrainian: Волинь, romanized: Volyn, pronounced...

on the 55th anniversary of the evacuation of NKVD prisoners deep into the USSR, Łódź, June 10, 1996] (in Polish). Warszawa: Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni...

operations of the NKVD Military history of the Soviet Union Military occupations by the Soviet Union Nemmersdorf massacre NKVD prisoner massacres Operation Frühlingserwachen...

During World War II, Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) held by Nazi Germany and primarily in the custody of the German Army were starved and subjected to...

testimonies and accounts of witnesses involved in the exhumation of the victims of the NKVD prisoner massacres, there is repeated mention of discovered bodies...

the belief that the Jews had worked for Polish landlords. The NKVD prisoner massacres by the Soviet secret police while they retreated eastward were...

Far East to unpopulated areas of the Kazakh SSR and the Uzbek SSR in 1937 by the NKVD on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Chairman of the...

discovered in 1997, with exhumations completed by 2013. Originally thought to be an example of NKVD mass murder, similar to the Katyn massacre and the Vinnytsia...

the NKVD; once a month a person had to register at a local law enforcement office at a selsoviet in rural areas or at a militsiya department in urban...

The Lutsk Ghetto (Polish: getto w Łucku, German: Ghetto Luzk) was a Nazi ghetto established in 1941 by the SS in Lutsk, Western Ukraine, during World War...

(2001) Bykivnia Dem'ianiv Laz Great Purge Katyn massacre NKVD massacres of prisoners Vinnytsia massacre Gaidamavičius, Giedrius (4 April 2021). "Belarus...

subjected to purges by Joseph Stalin. The Great Purge ended in 1939. In October 1940 the NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs), under its new...

October 1943 and 19,000 officers as well as 100,000 NKVD soldiers from all over the USSR participated in this operation. The deportation encompassed their...

civilians. A few days after the massacre, the local Home Army mistakenly attacked a NKVD unit that they thought was an UPA unit. In the fight near Dynów one...

harsh policies of the NKVD. The uncompleted prison was taken over by the NKVD in December 1939 and was used for political prisoners from all parts of Soviet-occupied...