Piskorowice is a village in the administrative district of
Gmina Leżajsk
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Gmina Leżajsk is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Leżajsk County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. Its seat is the town of Leżajsk, although the town is not part of the territory of the gmina.
The gmina co ...
, within
Leżajsk County,
Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of
Leżajsk and north-east of the regional capital
Rzeszów.
In Piskorowice and outlying villages a massacre of between 160 and 400 ethnic Ukrainians led by members of the
National Military Organization
Narodowa Organizacja Wojskowa (National Military Organization, NOW) was one of the Polish resistance movements in World War II. Created in October 1939, it did not merge with the Service for Poland's Victory (SZP)/Union of Armed Struggle (ZWZ); l ...
of the "Wolyniak" group, aided by Polish civilians, took place on 16 April 1945. It is sometimes referred to as part of the wider
Pawłokoma massacres.
From the Polish viewpoint of that time these actions were deemed to be retaliation for the anti-Polish crimes against humanity committed by the UPA. The immediate reason of this retaliation was the massacre committed by
UPA the day before in the village
Wiązownica.
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Piskorowice