Răzeni
Encyclopedia
Răzeni is a commune in Ialoveni district, Moldova
. It is composed of two villages, Răzeni and Mileştii Noi.
took place on June 22, 1941, when ten people were killed by Soviet authorities and buried in a mass grave
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Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
. It is composed of two villages, Răzeni and Mileştii Noi.
History
The Răzeni MassacreRăzeni Massacre
On June 22, 1941, during the first day of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, 10 people were killed in Răzeni, Moldova by Soviet authorities and buried in a mass grave.-Victims of the massacre:* Diomid Platon...
took place on June 22, 1941, when ten people were killed by Soviet authorities and buried in a mass grave
Mass grave
A mass grave is a grave containing multiple number of human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. There is no strict definition of the minimum number of bodies required to constitute a mass grave, although the United Nations defines a mass grave as a burial site which...
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