Volhynian Bloody Sunday

{{POV|date=February 2025}}{{Short description|1943 attack on Polish settlements by Ukrainian paramilitary group}}

On Sunday, 11 July 1943, OUN-UPA death squads, aided by local Ukrainian peasants, simultaneously attacked at least 99 Polish settlements within Wołyń Province of the German-occupied prewar Second Polish Republic.{{Context inline|date=February 2025}}

Nabi Abdullaev, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110615200350/http://www.fpa.org/newsletter_info2581/newsletter_info_sub_list.htm?section=Poland Foreign Policy Association: Central and Eastern Europe.] Fpa.org. Retrieved on July 11, 2011. It was a well-orchestrated attack on people gathered at Catholic churches for Sunday mass. The towns affected included Kisielin (the Kisielin massacre), Poryck (the Poryck Massacre), Chrynów (the Chrynów massacre), Zabłoćce, and Krymn, while dozens of other towns were attacked on other dates; tens of churches and chapels were burned to the ground.

The Volhynian massacres spread over four prewar provinces, including Wołyń with 40,000–60,000 victims, as well as Lwów, Stanisławów and Tarnopol provinces in Lesser Poland with 30,000-40,000 Poles murdered, for a total of 100,000 Polish victims of the UPA terror.{{dubious|date=February 2025}}{{Cite news|url=http://volhyniamassacre.eu/zw2/history/179,The-Effects-of-the-Volhynian-Massacres.html|title=The Effects of the Volhynian Massacres|last=Massacre|first=Volhynia|work=Volhynia Massacre|access-date=2018-07-13|language=en}}

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Selected locations of the Volhynian Bloody Sunday massacres

Below is the list of selected locations of the OUN-UPA mass killing raids targeting Polish Catholics, with the confirmed number of victims from July 11, 1943 exceeding one dozen men, women and children, according to compendium of Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia compiled by Władysław Siemaszko and Ewa Siemaszko. Existing settlements which have been attacked, but whose number of Polish victims remained undetermined at the time when the information was collected, are not listed here.Władysław Siemaszko, Ewa Siemaszko, [https://web.archive.org/web/20161205131124/https://www.inbook.pl/p/s/76663/ksiazki/historia/ludobojstwo-dokonane-przez-nacjonalistow-ukrainskich-na-ludnosci-polskiej-wolynia-tom-1-2 Ludobójstwo dokonane przez nacjonalistów ukraińskich na ludności polskiej Wołynia.'' Tom 1-2.] Publisher: Borowiecky, Warsaw, {{ISBN|978-83-60748-01-5}}, Vol.1; pp. 137, 141, 144-145, 147, 159, 179, 186, 191-192, 195, 337, 382, 616, 696, 817, 820, 823-829, 831-834, 836, 838-839, 848, 850, 852-853, 857-859, 863-866, 868, 871, 887-888, 890-893, 895-896, 899-905, 915, 929-930, 948, 959.

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! Powiat
(county)

! Gmina
(commune)

! Name of
settlement

! Number of
dead victims

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes

rowspan="10" | horochowski

| rowspan="4" | Chorów (pl)

| Bakonówka

| style="text-align:right" | more than 21

| Polish farmhouses burned down

Janin estate

| style="text-align:right" | around 50

| From Janin, departure for a raid on Zamlicz

Zachorów Nowy

| style="text-align:right" | 30

| Perpetrated by SB-OUN led by Wasyl Melnyk

Zamlicze village and estate

| style="text-align:right" | 118

| Separate article (pl)

Kisielin (pl)

| Kisielin

| style="text-align:right" | 90

| Kisielin massacre{{cite book |title=Ethnic cleansing of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, 1942-1946 |last=Terles |first=Mikolaj |year=1993 |publisher=Alliance of the Polish Eastern Provinces, University of Michigan |isbn=0-9698020-0-5 |page=39 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ha5pAAAAMAAJ&q=Kisielin+1943}}

rowspan="2" | Podberezie (pl)

| Koziatyn (pl) (uk)

| style="text-align:right" | 21

| 16 killed on site & 5 attempting to flee

Zagaje village

| style="text-align:right" | 260–350

| Zagaje massacre, July 11 or 12 Władysław Filar (2008), Wydarzenia wołyńskie 1939-1945. W poszukiwaniu odpowiedzi na trudne pytania. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek. {{ISBN|978-83-7441-884-3}}.

Skobełka (pl)

| Musin (Marianówka)

| style="text-align:right" | all

| Eradicated village

rowspan="2" | Świniuchy (pl)

|Liniów (pl) (uk)

| style="text-align:right" | 70

Sienkiewicze

| style="text-align:right" | all

| Eradicated village, July 11 or 12

kowelski (pl)

| Krymno (pl)

| Krymno

| style="text-align:right" | 40

| Massacre at a church

rowspan="39" | włodzimierski

| rowspan="4" | {{nobreak|Chotiaczów (pl)}}

| Bużanka (pl) (uk)

| style="text-align:right" | 14

Nowojanka Strony o Wołyniu, [http://wolyn.ovh.org/opisy/nowojanka-10.html Nowojanka.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031212214/http://wolyn.ovh.org/opisy/nowojanka-10.html |date=2016-10-31 }} Wolyn.ovh.org

| style="text-align:right" | at least 12

| Polish farmhouses burned down, July 11 or 12

Suchodoły estate Strony o Wołyniu, [http://wolyn.ovh.org/opisy/suchodoly-10.html Suchodoły.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811113951/http://wolyn.ovh.org/opisy/suchodoly-10.html |date=2016-08-11 }} Wolyn.ovh.org

| style="text-align:right" | 80

Suchodoły village (uk)

| style="text-align:right" | all Poles

rowspan="13" | Grzybowica (pl)

| Chrynów (pl)

| style="text-align:right" | 150

| Chrynów massacre

Franopol Strony o Wołyniu, [http://wolyn.ovh.org/opisy/franopol-10.html Franopol.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411115846/http://wolyn.ovh.org/opisy/franopol-10.html |date=2016-04-11 }} Wolyn.ovh.org

| style="text-align:right" | 9

Grzybowica

| style="text-align:right" | more than 34

Gucin

| style="text-align:right" | 147

| Separate article (pl)

Gurów

| style="text-align:right" | 202

| Gurów massacre

Kropiwszczyzna (pl)

| style="text-align:right" | more than 20

Nowiny