Kortelisy

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Kortelisy

| image_flag = Kortelisy prapor.png

| image_shield = Kortelisy gerb.png

| extinct_date = 22 September 1941

| settlement_type = Village

| subdivision_type = Country

| coordinates = {{coord|51|51|9|N|24|25|49.08|E|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type1 = Oblast

| subdivision_name = {{flag|Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|name=Ukraine}}

| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Volyn Oblast|name=Volyn}}

| subdivision_type2 = Raion

| subdivision_name2 = Ratne

| extinct_title = Destruction

| pushpin_map = Ukraine

}}

Kortelisy is a village in Ukraine which was destroyed on September 23, 1942, by Germany during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. Almost the entire population of Kortelisy, then amounting to 2,892 people, were killed by the German forces (the {{ill|Kortelisy massacre|pl|Pacyfikacja Kortelisów}}).{{Cite web|last=TLV-01|first=von|date=2012-09-22|title=Nach dem Massaker weinte der Himmel|url=https://www.hagalil.com/2012/09/kortelisy/|access-date=2021-11-11|website=haGalil|language=de-DE}}{{Cite web|last=TLV-01|first=von|date=2012-10-14|title=Ganz normale Männer|url=https://www.hagalil.com/2012/10/brest-litowsk/|access-date=2021-11-11|website=haGalil|language=de-DE}}{{Cite web |last=Herald |first=The Greek |date=2021-06-10 |title=Remembering the victims of the Distomo massacre |url=https://greekherald.com.au/culture/history/remembering-the-victims-of-the-distomo-massacre/ |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=The Greek Herald |language=en-AU}}{{Rp|pages=|page=281}} The Nazis were assisted by local Ukrainian police.{{cite journal |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280134876 |doi=10.1016/j.postcomstud.2015.06.006|title=Terrorists or national heroes? Politics and perceptions of the OUN and the UPA in Ukraine |year=2015 |author1=Ivan Katchanovski |journal=Communist and Post-Communist Studies |volume=48 |issue=2–3 |pages=217–228 }}

The village was later rebuilt."Resurrected from flames" (February 1980). Ukraine (illustrated monthly). {{ISSN|0203-5898}}. "But the village stands to this day, a bright, noisy and flowering village resurrected from flames."

Less well-known are reports that the German Army destroyed a total of 459 villages in Ukraine, killing many or all of their residents.{{Cite web|last=Vogels|first=Fred|title=Kortelisy its entire population of 2,892 men put to death|url=https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/nazi-terror/execution-spots/213621-kortelisy-its-entire-population-of-2-892-men-put-to-death.html|access-date=2021-11-11|website=Back to Normandy|date=2 September 1942 |language=en-gb}}{{Cite web|date=2012-02-04|title=World War II in Ukraine: Kortelisy (Ukraine), Lidice (Czechoslovakia) & Oradour-sur-Glane (France): Razed Villages|url=http://ukrhistory.tripod.com/page-20.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-11-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204070855/http://ukrhistory.tripod.com/page-20.html|archive-date=2012-02-04}}