What the records say
- When
- 29 Feb 1944
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 156
- Coordinates
- 49.06° N, 25.11° E
- Description
- massacre by Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Korosciatyn massacre
1944 massacre of Poles during World War II
The Korosciatyn massacre took place on the night of February 28/29, 1944, during the province-wide wave of massacres of Poles in Volhynia in World War II. Korosciatyn, which now bears the name of Krynica and is located in western Ukraine, was one of the biggest ethnic Polish villages of the interwar Poland's within Buczacz County in Tarnopol Voivodeship (pictured).
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