Bloody Sunday on Volhynia

On Sunday July 11, 1943 the OUN-UPA death squads aided by local peasants simultaneously attacked over 100 Polish settlements within the Wołyń Voivodeship.[1] It was a well-orchestrated attack on people gathered for a Sunday mass at Catholic churches.The towns affected included Kisielin (Kisielin massacre), Poryck (Poryck Massacre), Chrynów (Chrynów massacre), Zabłoćce, Krymn, with dozens of other towns attacked at different dates with tens of churches and chapels burned to the ground. The Volhynian massacres spread over four prewar voivodeships including Wołyń with 60,000 victims, as well as Lwów, Stanisławów and Tarnopol in Lesser Poland with 70,000 Poles murdered for the total of 130,000 Polish victims of UPA terror.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Foreign Policy Association: Central and Eastern Europe|CE Europe. Fpa.org. Retrieved on 11 July 2011.
  2. ↑ Tadeusz Piotrowski, Genocide and rescue in Wołyń: recollections of the Ukrainian nationalist ethnic cleansing campaign.... McFarland, 2000. ISBN 0-7864-0773-5. 319 pages
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