Chrynów massacre

Chrynów massacre
Location of the Massacre (map of the Second Polish Republic from before the German-Soviet invasion of 1939)
Location Chrynów, Volhynian Voivodeship, occupied Poland
Coordinates 50°41′18″N 24°14′56″E / 50.68833°N 24.24889°E / 50.68833; 24.24889Coordinates: 50°41′18″N 24°14′56″E / 50.68833°N 24.24889°E / 50.68833; 24.24889
Date July 11, 1943
Target Poles
Attack type
 Shooting and stabbing
Weapons Rifles, bayonets, axes, bludgeons
Deaths 150
Perpetrators Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Chrynów massacre (Polish: Zbrodnia w Chrynowie) was a massacre of Polish worshipers which took place in the Volhynian village of Chrynów,[1] Gmina Grzybowica, Powiat Włodzimierz, Wołyń Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic (Volyn Oblast since 1945, modern Грибовицька волость, Ukraine). It took place on Sunday, July 11, 1943, when a death squad of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) as well as armed deserters from the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (formed by Nazi Germany), supported by local Ukrainian peasants, surrounded local Roman-Catholic church where the Poles had gathered for a religious ceremony. The parish priest Jan Kotwicki was shot along with a group of women, when attempting to escape through the vestry. During the attack on the village Ukrainians murdered some 150 Poles. A week after this events all buildings in the village and the church were burned down to the ground, and the village ceased to exist.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Strony o Wołyniu (November 2007). "Wieś i osada Chrynów, gmina Grzybowica, powiat Włodzimierz, woj. wołyńskie". Wolyn.ovh.org. Including location map and names of prominent individuals.
  2. ↑ Władysław Siemaszko, Ewa Siemaszko (2000). Ludobójstwo dokonane przez nacjonalistów ukraińskich na ludności polskiej Wołynia 1939-1945. Warszawa. p. 380.
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