Wiązownica massacre

Wiązownica massacre - attack on the village Wiązownica, located in Jarosław County Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland (1945 in province of Lviv) related to Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. On April 17, 1945 in the village the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) murdered about 100 Poles.^[1] At last came to a battle with the local branch of the Polish, helped the group of B. Gliniak "Radwan" arrived later. On the Polish side were killed 91 people, including 20 women and 20 children, UPA burned 150 households. In connection with the events in Wiązownica, the same day NOW command decided to do a retaliatory attack on the village of Piskorowice, given a large concentration of its Ukrainian population sympathized with OUN.^[2]

References[]

^ Grzegorz Motyka, Od rzezi wołyńskiej do akcji „Wisła”, Kraków 2011, ISBN 978-83-08-04576-3, s. 366
^ "Zemsta na UPA. Polscy partyzanci zastrzelili 100 ludzi w odwecie za rzeź w Wiązownicy". 25 September 2015.

Coordinates: 50°04′56″N 22°42′10″E / 50.0822°N 22.7028°E / 50.0822; 22.7028

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[1] Grzegorz Motyka, Od rzezi wołyńskiej do akcji „Wisła”, Kraków 2011, ISBN 978-83-08-04576-3, s. 366

[2] "Zemsta na UPA. Polscy partyzanci zastrzelili 100 ludzi w odwecie za rzeź w Wiązownicy". 25 September 2015.

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