[4] The village council of Hlynne is widely regarded as holding the record for the highest birth rate in all of Europe.

[5][6][7] On 26 August 1942, after living under a reign of terror for just over a year, the Jews of Rokytne were ordered to gather in the central market square for deportation to a killing site outside the town.

People were systematically shot or herded into waiting rail cars, destined for Sarny.

[9] Jews were also forcibly transferred to Sarny from the towns of Tomashorod, Klesiv and Dubrovytsia.

Yad Vashem, The Untold Stories: The Murder Sites of The Jews In the Occupied Territories of the Former USSR, pp.