Boremel ( uk, Боремель, pl, Boremel, yi, Barmli) is a village in the Dubno Raion in Rivne Oblast in western

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 ...

, but was formerly administered within Demydivka Raion. The population is 866 inhabitants.

History

First time mentioned in 1366. Yosef Weitz and

Wincenty Krasiński Count Wincenty Krasiński (5 April 1782 – 24 November 1858) was a Polish nobleman ( szlachcic), political activist and military leader. He was the father of Zygmunt Krasiński, one of Poland's Three Bards—Poland's greatest romantic poets. ...

were born here. During World War II, the local Jewish population was kept imprisoned in a

ghetto A ghetto, often called ''the'' ghetto, is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially as a result of political, social, legal, environmental or economic pressure. Ghettos are often known for being more impoverished t ...

. In September 1942, an

Einsatzgruppen (, ; also ' task forces') were (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe. The had an integral role in the im ...

perpetrated a mass execution killing 700 Jews according to Soviet archives.

References

Holocaust locations in Ukraine {{Ukraine-geo-stub Villages in Dubno Raion