Głęboczyca massacre

Głęboczyca massacre was a mass murder of ethnic Poles carried out on 29 August 1943 by the troops of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army aided by the Ukrainian peasants. It exclusively targeted Polish inhabitants of the Głęboczyca colony, located in the Włodzimierz County (powiat włodzimierski) of the Wołyń Voivodeship in the Second Polish Republic (now, part of Volodymyr-Volynskyi Raion, north of Volodymyr, Ukraine).^[1][2] About 250 Poles were killed, including 199 known by name including women and children.^[3] Głęboczyce does not exist anymore. It was swept from existence during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, along with the neighbouring settlement of Ostrówek in powiat Luboml.^[4]

Commemorative stone listing locations of OUN-UPA murders with the mention of Głęboczyca

View of the memorial, Warsaw

Głęboczyca massacre
Głęboczyca  Łuck Brześć Lwów Kraków Poznań Warsaw Wilno Stanisławów Location of the Massacre (map of the Second Polish Republic from before the German-Soviet invasion of 1939)
Location	Głęboczyca, Volhynian Voivodeship, occupied Poland
Coordinates	50°50′53″N 24°19′20″E
Date	29 August 1943
Target	Poles
Attack type	Shooting and stabbing
Weapons	Axes, bludgeons
Deaths	250
Perpetrators	Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Motive	Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Polish sentiment, Greater Ukraine, Ukrainisation

References

1. Strony o Wołyniu (October 2008). "Kolonia Głęboczyca, gmina Olesk, powiat Włodzimierz, woj. wołyńskie". Wolyn.ovh.org. Archived from the original on 2016-12-01. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
2. Wołyń naszych przodków (2016). "Map of Powiat włodzimierski showing hundreds of locations of massacres of Poles". NaWolyniu.pl.
3. Władysław Siemaszko, Ewa Siemaszko, Ludobójstwo dokonane przez nacjonalistów ukraińskich na ludności polskiej Wołynia 1939-1945, Warszawa 2000, p. 873.
4. Czesław Partacz. "Depolonizacja Wołynia i Małopolski Wschodniej przez OUN–UPA i Służbę Bezpieczeństwa OUN w latach 1943–1944" (PDF). Rocznik Koszaliński. Koszalińska Biblioteka Publiczna: Rocznik Koszaliński Nr 31: 106. ISSN 0137-5652.