Ilnyk ( ua, Ільник, pl, Ilnik) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

(''selo'') in Sambir Raion,

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a wikt:Appendix:Glossary#relational, relational adjective—in Englis ...

, in south-west

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

. It belongs to

Turka urban hromada Turka may refer to: Places *Turka, Chełm County, in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland) *Turka, Lublin County, in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland) *Turka, Republic of Buryatia, a rural locality in Russia *Turka, Ukraine, a city in Lviv Oblast, Ukrai ...

, one of the

hromada A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...

s of Ukraine. The village was established in the second half of the 15th century. A local Orthodox church was mentioned already in 1507.

History

Until 18 July 2020, Ilnyk belonged to

Turka Raion Turka Raion ( uk, Турківський район) was a raion (administrative unit) in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was the city of Turka. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative refor ...

. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Turka Raion was merged into Sambir Raion.

The Jewish community

A Jewish community of 40 families living in the village. In the summer of 1942, all the Jews of the village were required to move to Turka, where they were sent in August and October for deportations to Belzec. Only individuals were allowed to remain in the village and in December 1942 they too were transferred to Turka and from there to the ghetto in Sambor and perished along with the remains of this community. Small groups of Ilnik Jews wandered through the surrounding forests and built bunkers to hide. Some were handed over by the peasants to the Germans and murdered. In the summer of 1943, those hiding in the forests, including the remains of the Ilnik community, organized into larger groups. These used force to obtain food in the nearby villages. Some of them were also armed. Towards the winter of 1943-1944, two large, well equipped and well equipped bunkers were built, in which about 60 Jews were concentrated. The Germans followed in the footsteps of these bunkers, and after a battle in which the Jews also returned fire, most of them, including a number of Ilnik Jews, were killed.Ilnyk at the Center for the Heritage of Polish Jewry
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References

Ilnyk Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust {{Lviv-geo-stub