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.
It was a well-orchestrated attack on people gathered at Catholic churches for Sunday mass. The towns affected included Kisielin, Poryck, Chrynów, 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.

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.
Powiat
'		Gmina
'		Name of
settlement		Number of
dead victims		Notes
horochowskiChorów Bakonówkamore than 21Polish farmhouses burned down
horochowskiChorów Janin estatearound 50From Janin, departure for a raid on Zamlicz
horochowskiChorów Zachorów Nowy30Perpetrated by SB-OUN led by Wasyl Melnyk
horochowskiChorów Zamlicze village and estate118Separate article
horochowskiKisielin Kisielin90Kisielin massacre
horochowskiPodberezie Koziatyn 2116 killed on site & 5 attempting to flee
horochowskiPodberezie Zagaje village260–350Zagaje massacre, July 11 or 12
horochowskiSkobełka Musin allEradicated village
horochowskiŚwiniuchy Liniów 70
horochowskiŚwiniuchy SienkiewiczeallEradicated village, July 11 or 12
kowelski Krymno Krymno40Massacre at a church
włodzimierskiBużanka 14
włodzimierskiNowojankaat least 12Polish farmhouses burned down, July 11 or 12
włodzimierskiSuchodoły estate80
włodzimierskiSuchodoły village all Poles
włodzimierskiGrzybowica Chrynów 150Chrynów massacre
włodzimierskiGrzybowica Franopol9
włodzimierskiGrzybowica Grzybowicamore than 34
włodzimierskiGrzybowica Gucin147Separate article
włodzimierskiGrzybowica Gurów202Gurów massacre
włodzimierskiGrzybowica Kropiwszczyzna more than 20
włodzimierskiGrzybowica Nowiny~ 80
włodzimierskiGrzybowica Sądowa160Separate article
włodzimierskiGrzybowica Sądowa area13
włodzimierskiGrzybowica Stasin105Separate article
włodzimierskiGrzybowica Wygranka150Separate article
włodzimierskiGrzybowica Zabłoćce 76Massacre at a church
włodzimierskiGrzybowica Żdżary Duże colony51
włodzimierskiKorytnica Strzelecka colony60Attacked on July 11 or 12
włodzimierskiKorytnica Turówka 49
włodzimierskiKorytnica Wydrankaseveral dozen
włodzimierskiMikulicze Biskupicze Górne estate70
włodzimierskiMikulicze Biskupicze Górne village at least 20
włodzimierskiMikulicze Markostaw 44Attacked on July 11 or 12
włodzimierskiMikulicze Mikulicze24
włodzimierskiMikulicze Orlęta~ 50
włodzimierskiMikulicze Zygmuntówkaseveral dozen
włodzimierskiPoryck Iwanicze Stare & Nowe village & colonymore than 9
włodzimierskiPoryck Jerzyn51Attacked by the same death squad as in Poryck
włodzimierskiPoryck Kłopoczyn 15
włodzimierskiPoryck Lachów at least 21
włodzimierskiPoryck Orzeszyn306Separate article
włodzimierskiPoryck Pawłówka10
włodzimierskiPoryck Poryck200Separate article Poryck 1943 massacre of Poles
włodzimierskiPoryck Romanówka more than 15
włodzimierskiPoryck Topieliszcze more than 14Attacked on July 11 or in the following days
włodzimierskiPoryck Wolica14
włodzimierskiWerba Dominopolat least 220Dominopol massacre
włodzimierskiWerba Piński Most29
włodzimierskiWerba Wołczak9