Massacre

Leonówka massacre

1 Aug 1943 · 50.76° N, 26.62° E

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When
1 Aug 1943
Kind
Massacre
Deaths
190
Coordinates
50.76° N, 26.62° E
Description
Ukrainian nationalism massacre

Leonówka massacre

In early August 1943, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed approximately 190 Polish people in Leonówka, a colony in Tuchyn, Rovensky Uyezd, Wołyń Voivodeship, as part of the larger campaign of massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, considered as a genocide.

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