What the records say
- When
- 30 Aug 1943
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 300
- Coordinates
- 51.14° N, 25.30° E
- Description
- mass murder operation in Gaj carried out during the Massacres of Poles
Gaj massacre
Massacre of Polish village
Gaj massacre was a massacre of the Polish population of Gaj, committed on 30 August 1943 by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army death squad aided by the Ukrainian peasants, in which 600 civilian Poles were killed, including a large number of children. The mass murder operation in Gaj was carried out during the province-wide Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
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