What the records say
- When
- 2 Jun 1943
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 50.26° N, 26.10° E
- Description
- 1943 massacre by Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Hurby massacre
World War II atrocity
Hurby massacre was a mass murder of the Polish population of the Hurby village, perpetrated on June 2, 1943, by a death squad of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and so-called brushwood self defence commando made up of Ukrainian peasants, during the province-wide Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia in World War II. Hurby belonged to the Second Polish Republic before the war began.
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