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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]
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 ...
On Sunday, 11 July 1943, OUN-UPA death squads, aided by local Ukrainian peasants, simultaneously attacked at least 99 Polish settlements within Wołyń Province of the German-occupied prewar Second Polish Republic. [needs context] [1] It was a well-orchestrated attack on people gathered at Catholic churches for Sunday mass.
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 ...
29 January 1943 Sumin Nazi Germany: 50 Róża massacre 2 February 1943 Róża Nazi Germany: dozens Imbramowice massacre 2 February 1943 Imbramowice Nazi Germany: 50–60 Romanis Paulinów massacre 24 February 1943 Paulinów Nazi Germany: 11 Poles and 3 Jews retribution for rescuing Jews from the Holocaust Leśna massacre 13 March 1943 Leśna
Polish victims of a massacre committed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in the village of Lipniki, Wołyń (Volhynia), 1943. On July 15, 2009, the Sejm of Poland, in its resolution (adopted by unanimous acclamation without voting procedure) stated, that the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) carried out "an anti-Polish action – mass killings that ...
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)