UPA Memorials

Monuments, crimes and disputes over memory

A source-based map of OUN/UPA-related memorials, crime sites, destroyed communities and contemporary disputes over memory.

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Crime sites

• Parośla I massacre site, 149–173
• Lipniki massacre site, at least 179
• Janowa Dolina massacre site, about 600
• Poryck church massacre, about 200
• Kisielin church massacre, 83
• Gurów massacre site, 202 potwierdzone nazwiskami

Public dossiers

• Stepan Bandera: the world map of a contested hero
• Roman Shukhevych: commander, underground leader and patron of public space
• 11 July 1943: how to map Bloody Sunday without turning a symbol into a false total
• Ostrówki and Wola Ostrowiecka: from the 1943 crime to the 2026 exhumations
• Polish villages that disappeared from the map: documenting destruction, depopulation and surviving traces
• OUN, UPA, SS “Galizien” and auxiliary police: how not to confuse them
• Huta Pieniacka: two events, perpetrators, numbers and the new search
• Ukrainians who rescued Poles
• Jewish victims of Volhynia: Holocaust, survival and later violence
• OUN and UPA memorials outside Ukraine: diaspora, cemeteries and public controversy

Topics and explainers

• What does the red-and-black flag mean, and what does the President want to change?
• Why victim totals differ
• Crime, rescue and reprisal. No collective blame
• Jews of Volhynia: Polish citizens, victims of the Holocaust and nationalist violence
• Why do Bandera and Shukhevych have streets, monuments and plaques?
• Genocide, ethnic cleansing or crime against humanity?
• Why are exhumations so important?
• OUN, UPA, SS 'Galizien' and auxiliary police: who was who?

Editorial principles

The project describes specific organisations, formations, people and events. It does not assign collective responsibility to the Ukrainian nation, documents Ukrainians who rescued Poles and acknowledges Polish retaliatory actions without obscuring the responsibility of perpetrators of documented crimes.