1945-02-12/1945-02-13 · CR-0044
Puźniki: massacre and destruction of the village
100-125; 82 bodies found victims according to the cited sources
The IPN record gives a range of 100 to 125 Polish victims, notes that 82 bodies were found and records the burning of 172 residential buildings.
- Date
- 1945-02-12/1945-02-13
- Victim count
- 100-125; 82 bodies found
- Perpetrators according to the sources
- Ukrainian nationalist attackers, described in the IPN record and cited archival materials
- Location
- former village area in Ternopil Oblast · Ternopil Oblast
- Country
- Ukraine
- Historical region
- Eastern Galicia
- Map location
- Approximate point for the historical locality, ~1.5 km
Sources
- Zbrodnia w Puźnikach w nocy z 12 na 13 lutego 1945 r., zbrodniawolynska.pl (IPN project)
- zbrodniawolynska.pl source-map record, zbrodniawolynska.pl (IPN project)
Important limitation: This record concerns a specific event and formations named by the sources; it does not assign collective responsibility to the Ukrainian nation.