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] It was a well-orchestrated attack on people gathered at Catholic churches for Sunday mass. The towns affected included Kisielin (the Kisielin massacre), Poryck (the Poryck Massacre), Chrynów (the Chrynów massacre), Zabłoćce, and Krymn, while dozens of other towns were attacked on other dates; tens of churches and chapels were burned to the ground.

The Volhynian massacres spread over four prewar provinces, including Wołyń with 40,000–60,000 victims, as well as Lwów, Stanisławów and Tarnopol provinces in Lesser Poland with 30,000-40,000 Poles murdered, for a total of 100,000 Polish victims of the UPA terror.[2]


Location of powiaty Włodzimierz (top left) and Horochów (lower centre) in Wołyń Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic with neighbouring administrative units; the epicentre of the UPA massacres of July 11, 1943

Selected locations of the Volhynian Bloody Sunday massacres

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Below is the list of selected locations of the OUN-UPA mass killing raids targeting Polish Catholics, with the confirmed number of victims from July 11, 1943 exceeding one dozen men, women and children, according to compendium of Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia compiled by Władysław Siemaszko and Ewa Siemaszko. Existing settlements which have been attacked, but whose number of Polish victims remained undetermined at the time when the information was collected, are not listed here.[3]

Powiat
(county)
Gmina
(commune)
Name of
settlement
Number of
dead victims
Notes
horochowski Chorów (pl) Bakonówka more than 21 Polish farmhouses burned down
Janin estate around 50 From Janin, departure for a raid on Zamlicz
Zachorów Nowy 30 Perpetrated by SB-OUN led by Wasyl Melnyk
Zamlicze village and estate 118 Separate article (pl)
Kisielin (pl) Kisielin 90 Kisielin massacre[4]
Podberezie (pl) Koziatyn (pl) (uk) 21 16 killed on site & 5 attempting to flee
Zagaje village 260–350 Zagaje massacre, July 11 or 12 [5]
Skobełka (pl) Musin (Marianówka) all Eradicated village
Świniuchy (pl) Liniów (pl) (uk) 70
Sienkiewicze all Eradicated village, July 11 or 12
kowelski (pl) Krymno (pl) Krymno 40 Massacre at a church
włodzimierski Chotiaczów (pl) Bużanka (pl) (uk) 14
Nowojanka [6] at least 12 Polish farmhouses burned down, July 11 or 12
Suchodoły estate [7] 80
Suchodoły village (uk) all Poles
Grzybowica (pl) Chrynów (pl) 150 Chrynów massacre
Franopol [8] 9
Grzybowica more than 34
Gucin 147 Separate article (pl)
Gurów 202 Gurów massacre
Kropiwszczyzna (pl) more than 20
Nowiny ~ 80
Sądowa 160 Separate article (pl)
Sądowa area 13
Stasin 105 Separate article (pl)
Wygranka 150 Separate article (pl)
Zabłoćce (pl) 76 Massacre at a church
Żdżary Duże colony 51
Korytnica (pl) Strzelecka colony 60 Attacked on July 11 or 12
Turówka (uk) 49
Wydranka several dozen
Mikulicze (pl) Biskupicze Górne estate 70
Biskupicze Górne village (uk) at least 20
Markostaw (uk) 44 Attacked on July 11 or 12
Mikulicze 24
Orlęta ~ 50
Zygmuntówka several dozen
Poryck (pl) Iwanicze Stare & Nowe village & colony more than 9
Jerzyn 51 Attacked by the same death squad as in Poryck
Kłopoczyn (uk) 15
Lachów (pl) at least 21
Orzeszyn 306 Separate article (pl)
Pawłówka 10
Poryck 200 Separate article (pl) Poryck 1943 massacre of Poles
Romanówka (pl) more than 15
Topieliszcze (pl) more than 14 Attacked on July 11 or in the following days
Wolica 14
Werba (pl) Dominopol at least 220 Dominopol massacre
Piński Most 29
Wołczak 9

References

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  1. ^ Nabi Abdullaev, Foreign Policy Association: Central and Eastern Europe. Fpa.org. Retrieved on July 11, 2011.
  2. ^ Massacre, Volhynia. "The Effects of the Volhynian Massacres". Volhynia Massacre. Retrieved 2018-07-13.
  3. ^ Władysław Siemaszko, Ewa Siemaszko, Ludobójstwo dokonane przez nacjonalistów ukraińskich na ludności polskiej Wołynia. Tom 1-2. Publisher: Borowiecky, Warsaw, ISBN 978-83-60748-01-5, Vol.1; pp. 137, 141, 144-145, 147, 159, 179, 186, 191-192, 195, 337, 382, 616, 696, 817, 820, 823-829, 831-834, 836, 838-839, 848, 850, 852-853, 857-859, 863-866, 868, 871, 887-888, 890-893, 895-896, 899-905, 915, 929-930, 948, 959.
  4. ^ Terles, Mikolaj (1993). Ethnic cleansing of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, 1942-1946. Alliance of the Polish Eastern Provinces, University of Michigan. p. 39. ISBN 0-9698020-0-5.
  5. ^ Władysław Filar (2008), Wydarzenia wołyńskie 1939-1945. W poszukiwaniu odpowiedzi na trudne pytania. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek. ISBN 978-83-7441-884-3.
  6. ^ Strony o Wołyniu, Nowojanka. Archived 2016-10-31 at the Wayback Machine Wolyn.ovh.org
  7. ^ Strony o Wołyniu, Suchodoły. Archived 2016-08-11 at the Wayback Machine Wolyn.ovh.org
  8. ^ Strony o Wołyniu, Franopol. Archived 2016-04-11 at the Wayback Machine Wolyn.ovh.org