Głęboczyca massacre

Głęboczyca massacre
Location of the Massacre (map of the Second Polish Republic from before the German-Soviet invasion of 1939)
Location Głęboczyca, Volhynian Voivodeship, occupied Poland
Coordinates 50°50′53″N 24°19′20″E / 50.84806°N 24.32222°E / 50.84806; 24.32222Coordinates: 50°50′53″N 24°19′20″E / 50.84806°N 24.32222°E / 50.84806; 24.32222
Date 29 August 1943
Target Poles
Attack type
 Shooting and stabbing
Weapons Axes, bludgeons
Deaths 250
Perpetrators Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Głęboczyca massacre was a mass murder of ethnic Poles carried out on 29 August 1943 by the troops of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army aided by the Ukrainian peasants, targeting exclusively Polish inhabitants of the Głęboczyca colony located in the Włodzimierz County (powiat włodzimierski) of the Wołyń Voivodeship in the Second Polish Republic,[1] (now, part of Volodymyr-Volynskyi Raion, north of Volodymyr, Ukraine).[2] About 250 Poles were killed, including 199 known by name including women and children.[3] Głęboczyce does not exist anymore. It was swept from existence during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, along with the neighbouring settlement of Ostrówek in powiat Luboml.[4]

Commemmorative stone listing locations of OUN-UPA murders with the mention of Głęboczyca
View of the memorial, Warsaw

References

  1. ↑ Strony o Wołyniu (October 2008). "Kolonia Głęboczyca, gmina Olesk, powiat Włodzimierz, woj. wołyńskie". Wolyn.ovh.org.
  2. ↑ Ryszard Szawlowski (18 January 2012). "Genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population during World War II". Electronic Museum.ca – via Internet Archive.
  3. ↑ Władysław Siemaszko, Ewa Siemaszko, Ludobójstwo dokonane przez nacjonalistów ukraińskich na ludności polskiej Wołynia 1939-1945, Warszawa 2000, p. 873.
  4. ↑ Czesław Partacz. Depolonizacja Wołynia i Małopolski Wschodniej przez OUN–UPA i Służbę Bezpieczeństwa OUN w latach 1943–1944 (PDF). Koszalińska Biblioteka Publiczna: Rocznik Koszaliński Nr 31. p. 106. ISSN 0137-5652.
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