Pyriatyn (, ) is a city in
Poltava Oblast,
Ukraine. It is the administrative center of
Pyriatyn Raion
Pyriatyn Raion ( uk, Пирятинський район) was a raion (district) in Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. The raion's administrative center was the town of Pyriatyn. The raion was abolished and its territory was merged into Lubny Raio ...
. Population:
History
At the end of 1941 or beginning 1942, a
ghetto guarded by policemen was established and numbered over 1,500 Jews by late March 1942.
There were two major executions of Jews carried out by SD units Sonderkommando Plath, accompanied by Ukrainian auxiliary police. The first one took place on April 6, 1942, about 1530 Jews were taken to the woods, 3 km away from the town, and murdered. The second mass execution took place on May 18, 1942, when several Jewish families were killed along with 380 communists and Soviet militants, and 25 Gypsy families.
Gallery
File:The house where he worked Komsomol district committee.jpg, Historical building
File:Україна. Автошлях М 03. Пирятин.jpg, M03 Highway in Pyriatyn
File:Udaj near Pyrjatyn.JPG, Udaj River near Pyriatyn
See also
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Piryatin Airport
Pyriatyn Airport was an airfield located approximately south of Pyriatyn, Ukraine. Satellite imagery appears to show that it has been abandoned.
History
In May 1944, the recently improved field was provided to the United States Army Air Forces ...
References
External links
The murder of the Jews of Pyriatynduring
World War II, at
Yad Vashem website.
Cities in Poltava Oblast
Piryatinsky Uyezd
Cities of district significance in Ukraine
Holocaust locations in Ukraine
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