Budy Ossowskie massacre

Budy Ossowskie massacre
Location of the Massacre (map of the Second Polish Republic from before the German-Soviet invasion of 1939)
Location Budy Ossowskie, Volhynian Voivodeship, occupied Poland
Coordinates 51°13′0″N 24°43′0″E / 51.21667°N 24.71667°E / 51.21667; 24.71667Coordinates: 51°13′0″N 24°43′0″E / 51.21667°N 24.71667°E / 51.21667; 24.71667
Date 29 August 1943
Target Poles
Attack type
 Shooting and stabbing
Weapons Axes, bludgeons, bayonets
Deaths 250
Perpetrators Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Budy Ossowskie massacre was a mass murder of ethnic Poles carried out on 29–30 August 1943 by the troops of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army aided by the Ukrainian peasants during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. About 290 people were killed, including women and children,[1] all of them, Polish inhabitants of the Budy Ossowskie village, located in the Kowel County (powiat kowelski) of the Wołyń Voivodeship in the Second Polish Republic (now, part of the Kovel Raion, south-west of Kovel, Ukraine).[2] Budy Ossowskie village does not exist anymore. It was burned to the ground by the OUN-UPA. The charred remnants of the village were cleared in Soviet Ukraine for grazing cattle.[2] Overall, in the Kowel County some 7,300 ethnic Poles were murdered.[3]

Commemmorative stone listing locations of OUN-UPA murders with the mention of Budy Ossowskie
View of the memorial, Warsaw

References

  1. ↑ Władysław Siemaszko, Ewa Siemaszko, Ludobójstwo dokonane przez nacjonalistów ukraińskich na ludności polskiej Wołynia 1939-1945, Warszawa 2000, p. 380.
  2. 1 2 Strony o Wołyniu (October 2008). "Wieś Budy Ossowskie, gmina Turzysk, powiat Kowel, woj. wołyńskie". Wolyn.ovh.org.
  3. ↑ Wołyń naszych przodków (2016). "Powiat kowelski". NaWolyniu.pl. Liczbę ofiar polskich w tym powiecie ocenia się na 7,300 osób.
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