Chrynów massacre

Chrynów massacre (Polish: Zbrodnia w Chrynowie) was a massacre of Polish worshipers which took place in the Volhynian village of Chrynów, located in the modern Volyn Oblast, Ukraine (in Second Polish Republic until 1939). It took place on Sunday, July 11, 1943, when units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and deserters from Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, supported by local Ukrainian peasants, surrounded Poles who had gathered for a ceremony at a local Roman-Catholic church. The parish priest Jan Kotwicki was shot together with a group of women, when attempting to escape through the vestry. During the attack on the village Ukrainians murdered c. 150 Poles. A week after this events all buildings in the villlage and church were burned down.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Władysław Siemaszko, Ewa Siemaszko "Ludobójstwo dokonane przez nacjonalistów ukraińskich na ludności polskiej Wołynia 1939-1945", Warszawa 2000
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