The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (Polish: rzeź wołyńska, literally: Volhynian slaughter; Ukrainian: Волинська трагедія, Volyn tragedy), were carried out in German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (the UPA) with the active and frequent support of the local Ukrainian population against the Polish minority in the area of Volhynia, Eastern Galicia, parts of Polesia and Lublin region, beginning in 1943 and lasting up to 1945. The massacres of Poles in Volhynia, of Poles in Galicia, of Ukrainians in Lemko territories and the reprisals against Ukrainian civilians are all linked to each other and ought not stand alone; furthermore they cannot be understood without a good background context (which this article already has). An OUN order from early 1944 stated:Attacks on Poles during the massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were marked with extreme sadism and brutality. See more ideas about Family history, Family genealogy, Genealogy. Women were gang raped and had their breasts sliced off, children were hacked to pieces with axes, babies were impaled on bayonets and pitchforks or bashed against trees.The violence reached its peak on July 11, 1943 known to many Poles as “Bloody Sunday” when the UPA carried out attacks on 100 Polish villages in Volhynia burning them to the ground and slaughtering some 8,000 Polish men, women and children including patients and nurses at a hospital. Accordingly, "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 Ukraine and Poland." We will not burn Ukrainian homesteads nor kill Ukrainian women and children in retaliation. When UPA started their ethnical cleansings they counterattacked and practically whiped out the UPA, so screw your propaganda!
Volhynia (/ v oʊ ˈ l ɪ n i ə /; Polish: Wołyń, Ukrainian: Волинь, romanized: Volyń), is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, situated between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine.While the borders of the region are not clearly defined, the territory that still carries the name is Volyn Oblast, located in western Ukraine.
The peak of the massacres took place in July and Aug…
We will not burn Ukrainian homesteads nor kill Ukrainian women and children in retaliation.
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia . Massacres of Poles in Volhynia → Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia – This article originally covered incidents in Volhynia (a region of Poland before WW2 and currently a region of Ukraine). 20,000 Poles. Over 1,300 Ukrainians are documented as having helped Poles to a lesser or greater extent.
Rape, torture and mutilation were commonplace.
AK was the most succesful resistance movement in the world, whilst the despicable UPA was nothing else than mere collaborators. And this is the condition under which the massacre could be commemorated in Volhynia.” "Last year, I paid homage to the victims in Volhynia, where once there were Polish villages and towns, where people were murdered, and where nearly nothing has been left after these terrible developments. Photo No.
AK never did anything like this, they defended Poles and themselves in the beginning. Photo Gallery. That help assumed the following forms: warnings about attacks; showing an escape route during an attack; sheltering Poles before an expected attack; misleading the attackers; the provision of first aid to wounded Poles; the provision of food or clothing to survivors; taking care of orphans and children lost after attacks; helping to bury the victims; refusal to carry out an order to kill a Polish member of one’s own family; refusal to participate in an attack; public protest; sparing the lives of Poles; and the release of arrested Poles. In 500 localities of the Eastern Borderlands examined in this regard (massacres occurred in over 4,000 localities) the OUN-UPA killed ca. The Polish Red Cross shelter in Chełm. The death toll among civilians murdered during the Volhynia Massacre is still being researched. Chełm Museum collection. The only thing you seem to be doing around here is to spread fucking lies about Armia Krajowa. His wife was sleeping in bed. The Volhynia Massacre of Poles in the pre-war eastern-Polish regions of Volhynia and Galicia culminated on July 11, 1943, when the UPA, the Ukrainian nationalist militants, attacked some 100 Polish villages. German soldiers however were given orders not to intervene.
The genocide on Poles began in 1943 in Volhynia, while the climax of the massacres in eastern Małopolska came in 1944.