1943-08-31 · CR-0048
Swojczów: massacre of 31 August 1943
about 90 victims according to the cited sources
The IPN publication The Book of the Righteous of the Eastern Borderlands states that about 90 Poles were killed on 31 August 1943. Individual victim records also connect the attack with UPA members and local participants.
- Date
- 1943-08-31
- Victim count
- about 90
- Perpetrators according to the sources
- UPA formations and local participants, as described in the IPN victim records and cited publication
- Location
- historical village area in Volyn Oblast · Volyn Oblast
- Country
- Ukraine
- Historical region
- Volhynia
- Map location
- Approximate point for the historical locality, ~1.5 km
Sources
- The Book of the Righteous of the Eastern Borderlands, zbrodniawolynska.pl (IPN project)
- Victims database entries for Swojczów, 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.