Following the September 1939 Invasion of Poland , Turka was occupied by the Soviet Union . In June 1941 , the town was captured by the Wehrmacht , and its Jewish population perished in the Holocaust . The area of Turka also witnessed mass murders of Poles , carried out by Ukrainian nationalists ( see Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia ) . After World War II , the town was reattached to the Soviet Ukraine , and its Polish community was expelled to the so-called Recovered Territories
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
Turka, Ukraine