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killed them. Thousands of detainees were shot dead in their cells

by the retreating Soviets. (Simon Wiesenthal, Justice Not

Vengeance, 1989, p. 35)

(2) The NKVD burned prisons with prisoners in them.

While the movement to the East was taking place, the NKVD carried

out mass arrests and executions, chiefly of Ukrainians - especially

those who tried to avoid evacuation. In the jails most prisoners

whose period of imprisonment was more than three years were shot;

others were evacuated if possible. In several cities the NKVD

burned prisons with prisoners in them. (Volodymyr Kubijovyc,

editor, Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia, University of Toronto

Press, Toronto, 1963, Volume I, p. 878, Vsevolod Holubnychy and H.

M. wrote this section)

(3) Succeeded in annihilating some 10,000 political prisoners.

The Bolsheviks succeeded in annihilating some 10,000 political

prisoners in Western Ukraine before and after the outbreak of

hostilities (massacres took place in the prisons in Lviv, Zolochiv,

Rivne, Dubno, Lutsk, etc.). (Volodymyr Kubijovyc, editor, Ukraine:

A Concise Encyclopaedia, University of Toronto Press, Toronto,

Volume 1, p. 886)

(4) Mainly members of the city's [Lviv's] intelligentsia.

Before fleeing the German advance the Soviet occupational regime

murdered thousands of Ukrainian civilians, mainly members of the

city's [Lviv's] intelligentsia. (Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Volume

3, p. 222)

(5) NKVD slaughtered their prisoners en masse.

The Soviets' hurried retreat had tragic consequences for thousands

of political prisoners in the jails of Western Ukraine. Unable to

evacuate them in time, the NKVD slaughtered their prisoners en

masse during the week of 22-29 June 1941, regardless of whether

they were incarcerated for major or minor offenses. Major

massacres occurred in Lviv, Sambir, and Stanyslaviv in Galicia,

where about 10,000 prisoners died, and in Rivne and Lutsk in

Volhynia, where another 5000 perished. Coming on the heels of the

mass deportations and growing Soviet terror, these executions added

greatly to the West Ukrainians' abhorrence of the Soviets. (Orest

Subtelny, Ukraine: A History, 1994, p. 461)

(6) Liquidated with a shot at the scruff of the neck.

Right after the entry we were shown 2,400 dead bodies of Ukrainians

liquidated with a shot at the scruff of the neck at the city jail

of Lemberg [Lviv] by the Soviets prior to their marching off.

(Hans Frank, In the Face of the Gallows, p. 406)

(7) The city stank.

In Lvov, several thousand prisoners had been held in three jails.

When the Germans arrived on 29 June, the city stank, and the

prisons were surrounded by terrified relatives. Unimaginable

atrocities had occurred inside. The prisons looked like

abattoirs. It had taken the NKVD a week to complete their gruesome

task before they fled. (Gwyneth Hughes and Simon Welfare, Red

Empire: The Forbidden History of the USSR, 1990, p. 133)

(8) Many of them were found mutilated.

We learned that, before the Russian troops had left, a very great

number of Lemberg [Lviv] citizens, Ukrainians and Polish

inhabitants of other towns and villages had been killed in this

prison and in other prisons. Furthermore, there were many corpses

of German men and officers, among them many Air Corps officers, and

many of them were found mutilated. There was a great bitterness

and excitement among the Lemberg population against the Jewish

sector of the population. (Erwin Schulz, from May until 26

September, 1941 Commander of Einsatzkommando 5, a subunit of

Einsatzgruppe C, in John Mendelsohn, editor, The Holocaust:

Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes, Garland, New York, 1982,

Volume 18, p. 18)

(9) The killed people in Lemberg [Lviv] amounted to about 5,000.

On the next day, Dr. RASCH informed us to the effect that the

killed people in Lemberg [Lviv] amounted to about 5,000. It has

been determined without any doubt that the arrests and killings had

taken place under the leadership of Jewish functionaries and with

the participation of the Jewish inhabitants of Lemberg. That was

the reason why there was such an excitement against the Jewish

population on the part of the Lemberg citizens. (Erwin Schulz,

from May until 26 September, 1941 Commander of Einsatzkommando 5, a

subunit of Einsatzgruppe C, in John Mendelsohn, editor, The

Holocaust: Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes, Garland, New

York, 1982, Volume 18, p. 18)

(10) Hardly 20% of Ukrainian intelligentsia has remained.

Chief of Einsatzgruppe B reports that Ukrainian insurrection

movements were bloodily suppressed by the NKVD on June 25, 1941 in

Lvov. About 3,000 were shot by NKVD. Prison burning. Hardly 20%

of Ukrainian intelligentsia has remained. (Operational Situation

Report USSR No. 10, July 2, 1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel

Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, The Einsatzgruppen Reports:

Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign

Against the Jews July 1941-January 1943, Holocaust Library, New

York, 1989, p. 2)

(11) The corpses are dreadfully mutilated.

Location: Lvov

According to reliable information, the Russians, before

withdrawing, shot 30,000 inhabitants. The corpses piled up and

burned at the GPU prisons are dreadfully mutilated. The population