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OCR: Koiomyia is a city on the Prut River in westerr Ukraine Prior to World War Il. Kolomvia was in Poiand, and had Jewish population of about 15. ,000 peopie After the outbreak of war, the Soviet Union occupied Kolomvia and permitted thou sands of Jews from German -occupied areas of Poiand to take refuge in the city. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union June 1941, the Jews Kolomyia were savagely attacked by iocal nationalists The German -allied Hunaarian Army occupied the region and intervened on behaif of the Jews but the German Army took control in August In the foliowing months German Einsatzgruppen officers and Ukrainian police rounded up and shot more than 4000 Jews in Koiomyia March 1942 the Germans established ghetto for the remaining 18,000 Jews, who gradually died starvation dise ...