Ternopil honours the memory of murdered victims of the communists
At the beginning of the Second World War in July 1941, the Bolsheviks executed more than one thousand people in the Ternopil prison. Their remains lie in a common grave at the Mykulynetske Cemetery. On 8 July the Ternopil Regional branch of the Vasyl Stus Memorial Society, the Union of Former Political Prisoners and Victims of Repression, together with the local authorities and Churches will hold a Remembrance Service [Panykhyda] and gathering.