Mala Berezovytsia

Mala Berezovytsia
Village
Mala Berezovytsia Location in Ukraine
Coordinates: 49°45′19″N 25°33′51″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Ternopil Oblast
Raion	Ternopil Raion

Mala Berezovytsia (Ukrainian: Мала Березовиця; Polish: Berezowica Mała) is a village in Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, western Ukraine. It belongs to Zbarazh urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.^[1] Mala Berezovytsia has a current population of 230 people.

It is the birthplace of Taras Levkiv, a Ukrainian artist specializing in Ceramic art. It is also the birthplace of Mieczysław Albert Krąpiec, Polish professor, philosopher, theologian and longtime rector of the Catholic University of Lublin.

Cemetery in Mala Berezovytsia commemorating the victims of the UPA massacre in 1944

Mala Berezovytsia was the site of the massacre of Poles perpetrated by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army on February 22 and 23, 1944.^[2][3]

Until 18 July 2020, Mala Berezovytsia belonged to Zbarazh Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast to three. The area of Zbarazh Raion was split between Kremenets and Ternopil Raions, with Mala Berezovytsia being transferred to Ternopil Raion.^[4][5]

References

1. "Збаражская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
2. Grzegorz Hryciuk, Przemiany narodowościowe i ludnościowe w Galicji Wschodniej i na Wołyniu w latach 1931-1948, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2005.
3. Grzegorz Hryciuk, Holocaust in Eastern Galicia 1941-1944. Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Polish)
4. "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
5. "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.