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During the occupation in WWII (or the Great Patriotic War as it is known in countries of the former Soviet Union) the Nazis carried out an atrocity at Berestovetsky Ravine. They rounded up 1,356 citizens of Kaniv and the surrounding villages, which included: wives, children and parents of suspected members of a group involved in guerrilla warfare as well as 150 of the Jewish faith. These were shot and then buried in a mass grave. Many were buried alive. The monument of the frail figure of a mother and child alongside a granite needle was erected to their memory.

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