Pawłokoma [pavwɔˈkɔma] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dynów, within Rzeszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-east of Dynów and 32 km (20 mi) south-east of the regional capital Rzeszów. It is also 35 km west of Przemyśl.
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Village | |
 Pawłokoma | |
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| Coordinates: 49°48′42″N 22°17′18″E / 49.81167°N 22.28833°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Subcarpathian |
| County | Rzeszów |
| Gmina | Dynów |
| Population | 518 |
History edit
In the late stages of the Volyn tragedy, in March 1945, 365 Ukrainian,[2] and a few Polish, inhabitants of the village were murdered by a former Armia Krajowa unit, commanded by Józef Biss "Wacław". A monument to commemorate the Ukrainian victims of the Pawłokoma massacre was erected in 2005.
References edit
- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 1 June 2008.
- ^ Zhurzhenko, Tatiana (2013). "Memory wars and reconciliation in the Ukrainian-Polish borderlands: geopolitics of memory from a local perspective". In Mink, Georges; Neumayer, Laure (eds.). History, Memory and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Memory Games. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 186.
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