In September 1939 , following the Soviet Invasion of Poland , Zdolbunow was captured by the Soviet Union , where it remained until the Operation Barbarossa . Its Jewish minority perished in the Holocaust , and in late 1943 , Zdolbunow became a shelter for ethnic Polish population of Volhynia , escaping the Volhynian Genocide . On February 3 , 1944 , the town was captured by the Red Army
Volhynian Genocide
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
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