Medenychi ( uk, Меденичі, pl, Medenice) is an
urban-type settlement in
Drohobych Raion (
district) of
Lviv Oblast (
region) in
Western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of
Medenychi settlement hromada, 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.
Population: . Local government is administered by Medenychi village council.
History
The territory was occupied by Germans in early July 1941.
Once the territory was occupied by Germans, pogroms against the Jewish community were carried out by locals and continued till spring 1942. In August 1942, most of the Medenychi Jews were sent to the
Bełżec extermination camp
Belzec (English: or , Polish: ) was a Nazi German extermination camp built by the SS for the purpose of implementing the secretive Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder all Polish Jews, a major part of the "Final Solution" which in total ...
. According to the Soviet archives and testimonies gathered by
Yahad-In Unum
Yahad - In Unum (YIU) is a French organization founded to locate the sites of mass graves of Jewish victims of the Nazi mobile killing units, especially the ''Einsatzgruppen'', in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania and ...
, the column of Jews was shot midway between Medenychi and Hirske (Gorskoye). The Jews were shot in small groups in the clay pit, located close to the road. The execution was carried out by Germans.
References
External links
СМТ Меденичі
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Urban-type settlements in Drohobych Raion
Holocaust locations in Ukraine