Vinnytsia was occupied by German troops on 19 July 1941 during World War II . In 1943 , the Germans exhumed 9,439 bodies , mostly male and ethnically Ukrainian , from mass graves to discredit Soviet Communist government claims that men had been sent to prison , and not executed . The majority of the executions were believed to have happened during the Stalinist Great Purge between 1937 – 1938 in the Vinnytsia massacre
Vinnytsia massacre
Vinnytsia massacre
Vinnytsia