Chłaniów is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...
in the administrative district of
Gmina Żółkiewka, within
Krasnystaw County
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Krasnystaw County ( pl, powiat krasnostawski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government r ...
,
Lublin Voivodeship
The Lublin Voivodeship, also known as the Lublin Province ( Polish: ''województwo lubelskie'' ), is a voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in southeastern part of the country. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Lublin, C ...
, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of
Żółkiewka, south-west of
Krasnystaw
Krasnystaw ( uk, Красностав, Krasnostav) is a town in southeastern Poland with 18 630 inhabitants (31 december 2019). Situated in the Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Chełm Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is the capital o ...
, and south-east of the regional capital
Lublin.
On 23 July 1944, as revenge for the killing of an SS officer, the village of Chłaniów, together with nearby
Władysławin, was burned down by the
Ukrainian Self-Defense Legion. Overall, 44 residents died in the two villages. One of the officers ordering the attack was allegedly
Michael Karkoc
Michael Karkoc ( uk, Михайло Каркоць; March 6, 1919 – December 14, 2019) was a military officer who served in the Ukrainian Self Defense Legion (USDL) and later in the Waffen-SS during World War II. In June 2013, a man with the ...
, who lived openly in Minnesota, USA until his death in 2019.
References
Villages in Krasnystaw County
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