 In September 1939 it was captured by the Red Army, and Soviet authorities destroyed all ancient buildings, such as the Dominican church, Armenian church, the house of Sobieski, and historic cemetery.Under the German occupation, which began August 1941, the Germans, assisted by the Ukrainian police, murdered or deported to Stanislawow, all of the Jewish community of Tysmenytsia, which had numbered around 1500.Those sent to Stanislawow were later sent to the killing camp, Belzec.