Bodnariv

{{Infobox settlement

| native_name = Боднарів

| coordinates = {{coord|49|01|47|N|24|32|15|E|display=inline,title}}

| image_skyline = Прохідна льонозаводу.jpg

| native_name_lang = uk

| other_name = Bednarów

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_type1 = Oblast

| subdivision_type2 = Raion

| subdivision_name = {{flag|Ukraine}}

| settlement_type = village

| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast}}

| subdivision_name2 = Kalush

}}

Bodnariv ({{Langx|uk|Боднарів}}, {{Langx|pl|Bednarów}}) is a village in Kalush Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.{{Cite web |title=Mindat.org |url=https://www.mindat.org/feature-711976.html |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=www.mindat.org}}

History

Bednarów was part of Austrian Galicia and had a Greek Catholic church in 1900.{{Cite web |title=Gesher Galicia // Researching Jewish roots in the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, now Poland and Ukraine |url=https://www.geshergalicia.org/galician-town-locator/ |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=www.geshergalicia.org}}

It was attacked by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in 1944 during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. 250 people were killed in the {{Interlanguage link|Bednarów massacre|lt=massacre|pl|Zbrodnia w Bednarowie}}.{{Cite journal |last=Naleźniak |first=Paweł |date=2013-12-30 |title=Genocide in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia 1943–1944 |url=http://czasopisma.upjp2.edu.pl/thepersonandthechallenges/article/view/493 |journal=The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=29 |doi=10.15633/pch.493 |issn=2391-6559|doi-access=free }} The town's parish church was also burned down.{{Cite web |last=Redakcja |date=2022-03-07 |title=W nocy z 7 na 8 marca 1944 roku, banda Ukraińskiej Powstańczej Armii (UPA) dokonała zbrodnia 250 Polaków we wsi Bednarów » Historykon.pl |url=https://historykon.pl/w-nocy-z-7-na-8-marca-1944-roku-banda-ukrainskiej-powstanczej-armii-upa-dokonala-zbrodnia-250-polakow-we-wsi-bednarow/ |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=Historykon.pl |language=pl-PL}} Only 14 survived.{{Cite web |title=KALENDARIUM LUDOBÓJSTWA MARZEC 1944 |url=https://wolyn.org/index.php/publikacje/1313-kalendarium-ludobojstwa-marzec-1944 |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=wolyn.org |archive-date=2022-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325192710/https://wolyn.org/index.php/publikacje/1313-kalendarium-ludobojstwa-marzec-1944 |url-status=dead }}

There is a monument in the town to Nazi collaborator Oleksandr Lutskyi,{{Cite web |last=Golinkin |first=Lev |date=2021-01-27 |title=Nazi collaborator monuments around the world |url=https://forward.com/news/462916/nazi-collaborator-monuments-in-ukraine/ |access-date=2022-05-10 |website=The Forward |language=en}} who was born in the village.[http://archeos.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/%D0%9B%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81-%D0%A3%D0%9F%D0%90-09-%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BC.pdf Літопис УПА] {{Rp|page=62}}

Notable residents

References

Category:Villages in Kalush Raion

Category:War crimes committed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army