NKVD massacres of prisoners
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Massacre of prisoners was a series of massacres committed by Soviet NKVD on prisoners in cities in the annexed territory of Poland close to the border with the part of Poland occupied by germany and from which the Red Army was withdrawing after the German invasion in 1941.
By the beginning of the war most of ethnically Polish population have already beed deported off the border regions, see Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union. At the moment of massacres the majority of the inmates were Ukrainians accused of alliance to the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
Most of the prisoners were innocent and waiting deportation. Prisoners were shot and several prisons were burned down.
One of the most notable cases occurred in Lwów.
The death toll is estimated at 30,000-40,000.