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In August 1943, the Polish village of Gaj, near Kovel, was burned and some 600 people were massacred, and 438 people were killed, including 246 children, in Ostrówki. In July 1943, a total of 520 Polish villages were attacked, killing 10,000–11,000 Poles. At the same time, the killings in the eastern part of the county continued. [104]
Volhynia or Hatred (Polish: Wołyń) is a 2016 Polish war drama directed by Wojciech Smarzowski.The film is set in the 1939–1943 time frame and its central theme is Ukrainian anti-Polish hatred culminating in massacres of Poles in Volhynia.
With the 60th anniversary of the Volyn tragedy in 2003, a third era in the study of Ukrainian–Polish conflict started. In 2002 Grzegorz Motyka, finding all the previous concepts regarding the anti-Polish actions of the UPA inadequate, [ 35 ] suggested viewing the Ukrainian–Polish relations from the point of view of the question of Ukrainian ...
Below is the list of selected locations of the OUN-UPA mass killing raids targeting Polish Catholics, with the confirmed number of victims from July 11, 1943 exceeding one dozen men, women and children, according to compendium of Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia compiled by Władysław Siemaszko and Ewa Siemaszko.
The Ostrówki massacre was a 1943 mass murder of the Polish inhabitants of the Volhynian village of Ostrówki , located in the gmina Hushcha, Liuboml (Polish: Huszcza, Luboml), Volhynian Voivodeship in the Second Polish Republic (now known as Ostrowky, located in the Kamin-Kashyrskyi Raion of Volyn Oblast, Ukraine). On 30 August 1943, armed ...
Kisielin massacre was a massacre of Polish worshipers which took place in the Volhynian village of Kisielin (Second Polish Republic until 1939), now Kysylyn, located in the Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. [1] It took place on Sunday, July 11, 1943, when units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), supported by local Ukrainian peasants, surrounded Poles ...
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia (1943−1944) — in the Volhynia Region of eastern Poland and present-day western Ukraine, carried out by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Continued: Category:Massacres of Poles in Eastern Galicia (1943−1944)
The borders of the region are not clearly defined, but in Ukraine it is roughly equivalent to Volyn and Rivne Oblasts; the territory that still carries the name is Volyn Oblast. Volhynia has changed hands numerous times throughout history and been divided among competing powers. For centuries it was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.