| Eichenfeld massacre | |
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| Part of the Ukrainian War of Independence | |
| Location | Eichenfeld (now Novopetrivka), Ukraine |
| Coordinates | 48°03′59″N 34°59′02″E / 48.06639°N 34.98389°E |
| Date | 8 November 1919 |
| Target | Landowners and their adult sons |
Attack type | Massacre |
| Deaths | 136 |
| Victims | Ukrainian Mennonites |
| Perpetrators | Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine |
| Motive | Anti-German sentiment, class conflict |
| Part of a series on the |
| Makhnovshchina |
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The Eichenfeld massacre was a 1919 attack against the Mennonite colonists of Eichenfeld by the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine. Rising tensions between the native Ukrainian peasantry and Mennonite landowners had culminated with attacks on the latter, as insurgents took control of southern Ukraine and began carrying out reprisals against those that had collaborated with the Central Powers and the White movement.
In October 1919, Eichenfeld, a village of the Jasykowo sub-colony that had previously played host to a notable Selbstschutz detachment, was targeted for reprisals by the insurgents and local collaborators. The insurgents carried out a campaign of executions against the village's landowners and their adult sons, starting a series of anti-Mennonite massacres perpetrated by the insurgents until their defeat at the hands of the Red Army, which brought an end to the violence.