Volhynian Bloody Sunday

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Location of powiaty Włodzimierz (top left) and Horochów (lower centre) in Wołyń Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic with neighbouring administrative units; the epicentre of the UPA massacres of July 11, 1943

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.^[3]

Powiat (county)	Gmina (commune)	Name of settlement	Number of dead victims	Notes
horochowski	Chorów (pl)	Bakonówka	more than 21	Polish farmhouses burned down
		Janin estate	around 50	From Janin, departure for a raid on Zamlicz
		Zachorów Nowy	30	Perpetrated by SB-OUN led by Wasyl Melnyk
		Zamlicze village and estate	118	Separate article (pl)
	Kisielin (pl)	Kisielin	90	Kisielin massacre[4]
	Podberezie (pl)	Koziatyn (pl) (uk)	21	16 killed on site & 5 attempting to flee
		Zagaje village	260–350	Zagaje massacre, July 11 or 12 [5]
	Skobełka (pl)	Musin (Marianówka)	all	Eradicated village
	Świniuchy (pl)	Liniów (pl) (uk)	70
		Sienkiewicze	all	Eradicated village, July 11 or 12
kowelski (pl)	Krymno (pl)	Krymno	40	Massacre at a church
włodzimierski	Chotiaczów (pl)	Bużanka (pl) (uk)	14
		Nowojanka [6]	at least 12	Polish farmhouses burned down, July 11 or 12
		Suchodoły estate [7]	80
		Suchodoły village (uk)	all Poles
	Grzybowica (pl)	Chrynów (pl)	150	Chrynów massacre
		Franopol [8]	9
		Grzybowica	more than 34
		Gucin	147	Separate article (pl)
		Gurów	202	Gurów massacre
		Kropiwszczyzna (pl)	more than 20
		Nowiny	~ 80
		Sądowa	160	Separate article (pl)
		Sądowa area	13
		Stasin	105	Separate article (pl)
		Wygranka	150	Separate article (pl)
		Zabłoćce (pl)	76	Massacre at a church
		Żdżary Duże colony	51
	Korytnica (pl)	Strzelecka colony	60	Attacked on July 11 or 12
		Turówka (uk)	49
		Wydranka	several dozen
	Mikulicze (pl)	Biskupicze Górne estate	70
		Biskupicze Górne village (uk)	at least 20
		Markostaw (uk)	44	Attacked on July 11 or 12
		Mikulicze	24
		Orlęta	~ 50
		Zygmuntówka	several dozen
	Poryck (pl)	Iwanicze Stare & Nowe village & colony	more than 9
		Jerzyn	51	Attacked by the same death squad as in Poryck
		Kłopoczyn (uk)	15
		Lachów (pl)	at least 21
		Orzeszyn	306	Separate article (pl)
		Pawłówka	10
		Poryck	200	Separate article (pl) Poryck 1943 massacre of Poles
		Romanówka (pl)	more than 15
		Topieliszcze (pl)	more than 14	Attacked on July 11 or in the following days
		Wolica	14
	Werba (pl)	Dominopol	at least 220	Dominopol massacre
		Piński Most	29
		Wołczak	9

References

1. Nabi Abdullaev, Foreign Policy Association: Central and Eastern Europe. Fpa.org. Retrieved on July 11, 2011.
2. Massacre, Volhynia. "The Effects of the Volhynian Massacres". Volhynia Massacre. Retrieved 2018-07-13.
3. Władysław Siemaszko, Ewa Siemaszko, 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.
4. Terles, Mikolaj (1993). Ethnic cleansing of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, 1942-1946. Alliance of the Polish Eastern Provinces, University of Michigan. p. 39. ISBN 0-9698020-0-5.
5. Władysław Filar (2008), Wydarzenia wołyńskie 1939-1945. W poszukiwaniu odpowiedzi na trudne pytania. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek. ISBN 978-83-7441-884-3.
6. Strony o Wołyniu, Nowojanka. Archived 2016-10-31 at the Wayback Machine Wolyn.ovh.org
7. Strony o Wołyniu, Suchodoły. Archived 2016-08-11 at the Wayback Machine Wolyn.ovh.org
8. Strony o Wołyniu, Franopol. Archived 2016-04-11 at the Wayback Machine Wolyn.ovh.org