| LC control no. | sh2018001832 |
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| Topical heading | Volhynia Massacres, 1943-1945 |
| Variant(s) | Volhynian Massacres, 1943-1945 Volyn Massacres, 1943-1945 Wołyń Massacres, 1943-1945 |
| See also | Massacres--Poland Massacres--Ukraine World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Ukraine |
| Found in | Work cat: 2018361838: Volyni︠a︡ny pro "Volynʹ-43", 2017. World Affairs, online, December 19, 2018 (the brutal Polish-Ukrainian conflict that tore apart Volhynia in 1943 and produced tens of thousands of deaths) <http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/alexander-j-motyl/remembering-1943-volhynian-massacres> Google search, January 25, 2019 (Volyn Massacres 30,800; Volhynia Massacres 30,000; Wołyń Massacres 18,900) Clash of victimhoods, the Volhynia Massacre in Polish and Ukrainian memory, 16 Nov. 2016, via OpenDemocracy WWW site, March 6, 2019: ("After the battle of Stalingrad in 1943, which made the Third Reich's defeat and the re-ordering of borders in Europe pretty much predictable, the Bandera wing of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists and part of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army nationalist underground decided to 'clean out the Polish element' to make sure that Volhynia would not remain part of Poland. ... Historians estimate around 60,000 victims among Volhynia's Polish civilians."; Volhynia, a border region in the northwest of present-day Ukraine; Volhynian massacre; Volyn tragedy; "Wołyn 1943" as the events are known) <https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/andrii-portnov/clash-of-victimhood-1943-volhynian-massacre-in-polish-and-ukrainian-culture> The tragic massacre in Volyn remembered, July 15, 2013, via The economist online, March 6, 2019: ("Between February 1943 and February 1944, units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed up to 100,000 Poles in Volyn and eastern Galicia, former Polish territories now in western Ukraine. ... Around 20,000 Ukrainians also died at the hands of Poles or Ukrainians who saw them as too close to the hated occupiers.") Institute of National Remembrance WWW site, March 6, 2019: (1943 Volhynia Massacre; Volhynian massacres; anti-Polish genocidal ethnic cleansings conducted by Ukrainian nationalists; took place within Poland's borders as of the outbreak of WWII, and not only in Volhynia, but also in other areas with a mixed Polish-Ukrainian population, especially in Eastern Galicia and in the western part of the Lublin Voivodeship and the northern part of the Polesie Voivodeship; 1943−1945; chronology shows that the first Polish deaths occurred in Feb. 1943, the biggest waves of killings happened in July-Aug. 1943 (over 10,000 dead in July alone), and attacks continued until April 1945) |
| Not found in | Britannica online, March 6, 2019. |
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