Darnytskyi
In a district east of Kiev called Darnytskyi, the Germans established a prisoner of war camp for Soviet prisoners of war in 1941. The camp was called Stalag 339 and existed until 1943. Lack of shelter, lack of food, lack of medicines, water shorage etc, meant that diseases could spread uninhibitedly and killed thousands of prisoners. It is estimated that somewhere between 60,000 – 70,000 prisoners of war died in the camp.
Current status: Demolished with monument (2019).
Location: 50°25'45.00"N 30°41'39.77"E
Get there: Car.
Follow up in books: Moore, Bob, Fedorowich, Kent: Prisoners of War and Their Captors in World War II (1996).
The site is just over one kilometer into the forest and may not be easy to find. But just follow the road and you’ll get there. There is another monument that is much easier to find and probably erected after the fall of the Soviet Union and is located along a road.