At least 10% of ethnic Poles in Volhynia were killed by the UPA, according to Ivan Katchanovski, and thus "Polish casualties comprised about 1% of the prewar population of Poles on territories where the UPA was active and 0.2% of the entire ethnically Polish population in …

Beginning in March 1943, and lasting until early 1945, a violent ethnic cleansing operation against Poles – conducted primarily by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) – occurred in the regions of Eastern Galicia and Volhynia (now in Western Ukraine).

Jul 15, 2020 · Between 1943 and 1945, Ukrainian nationalists attacked 99 Polish towns and villages in Wolyn, a Nazi-occupied region of Poland and is now part of Ukraine, and massacred thousands of Poles. It is estimated that around 100,000 Poles died at …

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. [1]

Mar 14, 2022 · In 1929-1939, the OUN carried out a number of high-profile terrorist attacks against the highest officials of the Polish state, including the leader of Poland, Marshal Jozef Pilsudski. It culminated in the assassination by Ukrainian nationalists of the Minister of the Interior of Poland, Bronisław Peracki, in 1934.

The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (Polish language: rzeź wołyńska, literally: Volhynian slaughter; Ukrainian: Волинська трагедія, Volyn tragedy) were part of an ethnic cleansing operation carried out in Nazi Germany-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)'s North Command in the regions of ...

Volhynia massacre, also known as the Wołyń massacre, was a series of mass murder committed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Українська повстанська армія, УПА, English: UPA) against the Polish minority in Volhynia (/ v oʊ ˈ l ɪ n i ə /), Eastern Galicia between 1943 and 1945.

Jul 15, 2013 · Between February 1943 and February 1944, units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed up to 100,000 Poles in Volyn and eastern Galicia. UKRAINIANS call it a tragedy, for Poles it was a massacre.

Jul 10, 2023 · Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Polish counterpart have jointly commemorated the Poles murdered by Ukrainian nationalists in the 1943 Volhynia (Volyn) massacre.

Sep 1, 2024 · Thousands of Ukrainians were killed by Polish military formations in retaliation. The killing peaked during the summer of 1943, reaching a climax on July 11, 1943, known in Poland as “Bloody Sunday,” when at least 99 localities were attacked.