What the records say
- When
- 11 Jul 1943
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 50.74° N, 25.32° E
- Description
- The biggest attack on Polish people made by Ukrainians during Volhynian Genocide
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Volhynian Bloody Sunday
1943 attack on Polish settlements by Ukrainian paramilitary group
On Sunday, 11 July 1943, death squads of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists–Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN-UPA), aided by local Ukrainian peasants, simultaneously attacked at least 99 Polish settlements within Wołyń Province of the German-occupied Poland. It was a well-orchestrated attack on people gathered at Catholic churches for Sunday mass.
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