Staryi Vovchynets

Staryi Vovchynets (Ukrainian: Старий Вовчинець; Romanian: Volcineț) is a village in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. It belongs to Kamianka rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] The Staryi Vovchynets village council is the body of the local authority that administers the villages of Stary Vovchynets and Bila Krynytsia (Romanian: Fântâna Albă).

Until 18 July 2020, Staryi Vovchynets belonged to Hlyboka Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Chernivtsi Oblast to three. The area of Hlyboka Raion was merged into Chernivtsi Raion.[2][3]

Fântâna Albă massacre
Main article: Fântâna Albă massacre

A massacre took place there on 1 April 1941, when up to 3,000 civilians were killed when their attempt to forcefully cross the border from the Soviet Union to Romania was met with open fire by the Soviet Border Troops. Although according to Soviet official reports no more than 44 civilians were killed, local witnesses assert a much higher toll, stating that survivors were tortured, killed, or buried in mass graves. Other survivors were taken away to be tortured and killed at the hands of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police.[4][5] Some sources refer to this massacre as "the Romanian Katyn".[6][7] In 2011, the Chamber of Deputies of Romania adopted a law establishing 1 April as the National Day honoring the memory of Romanian victims of massacres at Fântâna Albă, Lunca, and other areas, of deportations, of hunger, and other forms of repression organized by the Soviet regime in Hertsa, northern Bukovina, and Bessarabia.[8]

Natives
  • Florea Lupu (1863–1939), Imperial Austrian-born Romanian lawyer and politician

References
  1. "Каменецкая громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  3. "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України. 17 July 2020.
  4. "Masacrul de la Fântâna Albă, îngropat de KGB: peste 2000 de români uciși de trupele sovietice" [The Fântâna Albă massacre, buried by the KGB: over 2,000 Romanians killed by Soviet troops]. Adevărul (in Romanian). 18 April 2010. Retrieved September 12, 2023.
  5. Bouleanu, Elisabeth (1 April 2016). "Masacrul de la Fântâna Albă. Cum au fost omorâți 3.000 de români, la granița cu România, pe 1 aprilie 1941, de Paște" [The Fântâna Albă Massacre. How 3,000 Romanians were killed, on the border with Romania, on April 1, 1941, Easter]. Adevărul (in Romanian). Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  6. Lupu, Victor (1 April 2016). "75 Years Since 'The Romanian Katyn' Massacre At Fântâna Albă – 3,000 Romanians Killed". Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  7. "Masacrul de la Fântâna Albă. În aprilie 1941, trupele NKVD au ucis 3.000 de români" [The Fântâna Albă Massacre. In April 1941, NKVD troops killed 3,000 Romanians] (in Romanian). digi24.ro. 20 August 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  8. "Ziua națională de cinstire a memoriei românilor – victime ale masacrelor de la Fântâna Albă și alte zone" (in Romanian). Agerpres. 1 April 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2023.

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