Dobromyl massacre
| Dobromyl massacre | |
|---|---|
Mass grave of NKVD's victims at the Salina salt mine | |
| Location | 49°34′55″N 22°45′50″E / 49.58194°N 22.76389°E Dobromyl – Salina salt mine |
| Date | June and July 1941 |
Attack type | mass murder |
| Deaths | 500–1,000 |
| Perpetrators | NKVD |
The Dobromyl massacre was a mass execution of prisoners held in the detention center in Dobromyl, carried out by NKVD officers in late June 1941, after the German invasion of Soviet Union began.
Mass executions took place both in the Dobromyl prison and in the Salina salt mine near Lacko. They were exceptionally brutal, as the NKVD officers, wanting to conceal evidence, murdered some of the prisoners with hammers and other blunt objects. The massacre resulted in between 500 and 1,000 deaths, mostly among Ukrainians and Poles. In addition to the inhabitants of Dobromyl and the surrounding area, many prisoners brought from Przemyśl and Mostyska were among the victims. The crime was one of many so-called NKVD prisoner massacres, carried out after the outbreak of the German–Soviet war.
After the Germans occupied Dobromyl, a pogrom targeting the Jewish population took place in the town, driven by the stereotype of "Judeo-Communism" that equated Jews with the Soviet system and its crimes.