Pawłokoma

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Pawłokoma
Village
Pawłokoma
Pawłokoma
Pawłokoma is located in Poland
Pawłokoma
Pawłokoma
Coordinates: 49°48′42″N 22°17′18″E / 49.81167°N 22.28833°E / 49.81167; 22.28833Coordinates: 49°48′42″N 22°17′18″E / 49.81167°N 22.28833°E / 49.81167; 22.28833
Country Poland
VoivodeshipSubcarpathian
CountyRzeszów County
GminaGmina Dynów
Population
518

Pawłokoma [pavwɔˈkɔma] (Ukrainian: Павлокома, Pavlokoma) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dynów, within Rzeszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-east of Dynów and 32 km (20 mi) south-east of the regional capital Rzeszów. It is also 35 km west of Przemyśl. The village has a population of 518.

History[]

Further information: Pawłokoma massacre

In 1939 the village had a population of 1189 Ukrainians.

In the late stages of the Volyn tragedy, in March 1945, 365 Ukrainian[2] and a few Polish inhabitants of Pawłokoma were murdered by the former Armia Krajowa unit, commanded by Józef Biss "Wacław".

A monument to commemorate the Ukrainian victims of the Pawłokoma massacre of March 1945 was made in 2005. The village was burned in October 1945 by the Armia Krajowa partisan unit.

References[]

  1. ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 1 June 2008.
  2. ^ Zhurzhenko, Tatiana (2013). "Memory wars and reconciliation in the Ukrainian-Polish borderlands: geopolitics of memory from a local perspective". In Mink, Georges; Neumayer, Laure (eds.). History, Memory and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Memory Games. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 186.
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