Refugee crises · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia (1943–44)
On the Refugee crises map as “Volhynia, 1943”
1943–44 — Ukrainian nationalist insurgents kill tens of thousands of Polish civilians, most estimates putting the dead at 40,000 to 60,000 in Volhynia and up to 100,000 with eastern Galicia; Polish reprisals kill perhaps 2,000 to 3,000 Ukrainians in Volhynia and thousands more elsewhere. The violence fed the post-war case for separating the two peoples entirely. Remember them.
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- Site of memory
- Chapter
- Polish population transfers (chapter 3 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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