Official Name: | Ivanopil |
Native Name: | Іванопіль |
Settlement Type: | Urban-type settlement |
Pushpin Map: | Ukraine Zhytomyr Oblast#Ukraine |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Oblast |
Subdivision Type2: | Raion |
Subdivision Name2: | Berdychiv Raion |
Timezone1: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Ivanopil (Ukrainian: Іванопіль, translit. Ivanopil’—known as Ukrainian: Янушпіль or Yanushpol or Ianushpol before 1946) is an urban-type settlement in Berdychiv Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. Population: In 2001, population was 3,993.
In May 1942, German units murdered more than 800 Jewish children, women, and men from Yanushpil (from 1946 — Ivanopil) and neighbouring localities in the outskirts of the village. Jewish life in Yanushpil was eradicated.[1]
Soviet prisoners of war as well as suspected and actual political opponents of National Socialism were also murdered in Yanushpil. The information stela was unveiled by the “Protecting Memory” in 2019 and it is dedicated to the victims of the German occupation in Yanushpil.