Huta Pieniacka
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Huta Pieniacka | |
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Village (destroyed) | |
 Huta Pieniacka monument | |
  Huta Pieniacka Location of eradicated village | |
| Coordinates: 49°54′07″N 25°05′56″E / 49.902°N 25.099°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine (location) |
| Destroyed | 1944, occupied Poland (now Ukraine) |
Huta Pieniacka (Ukrainian: Гута Пеняцька, Huta Peniatska) – was an ethnic Polish village of about 1,000 inhabitants until 1939,[1] located in Tarnopol Voivodeship, Poland (modern-day Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine). The site of what was once the village is currently located some 50 km from Ternopil, beside the village of Holubytsia (Ukrainian: Голубиця) and Peniaky in Zolochiv Raion.
During the German-Soviet War the village was the location of the Soviet partisan detachment under the command of NKVD colonel Dmitry Medvedev.
On February 28, 1944 almost all of the villagers, mostly of Polish ethnic background, plus several hundred refugees from Volhynia, and about 20 hidden Jews, were all murdered.[2] What wasn't already burned in the village, was otherwise razed during the Huta Pieniacka massacre, deemed later as a pre-planned pacification action[3] by the 4th SS police regiment, which was later adjoined to the SS Galizien (the conclusion of both Polish and Ukrainian historical commissions).[4][5] The village of Huta Pieniacka no longer exists. All the homes were burned during the massacre, with only the school and the Roman Catholic church remaining. Both of these buildings were demolished after the war, and the area where the village once stood, is a pasture where cattle now graze. A concrete post with an inscription in Ukrainian was placed in what was the center of the former village, but the inscribed plaque with the village name disappeared sometime during the 1990s.
