Wiśniowiec massacres (of Poles). In the monastery of
Discalced Carmelites and in the city
Wiśniowiec
Vyshnivets ( uk, Вишнівець, translit. ''Vyshnivets’''; pl, Wiśniowiec) is an urban-type settlement in Kremenets Raion (district) of the Ternopil Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Vyshnivets settleme ...
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Vyshnivets
Vyshnivets ( uk, Вишнівець, translit. ''Vyshnivets’''; pl, Wiśniowiec) is an urban-type settlement in Kremenets Raion (district) of the Ternopil Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Vyshnivets settleme ...
) in February 1944 an armed group of the
OUN massacred 300 Poles who had sought refuge there. Most people were hiding in the monastery and in the abandoned
Vyshnivets Palace. At the same time in the village
Wiśniowiec Stary took place another massacre, where 138 Poles were killed by
UPA.
[Grzegorz Motyka, Ukraińska partyzantka 1942–1960, Warszawa 2006 Wyd. Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN, Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rytm", (ISP PAN), (Rytm), , s.356]
See also
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Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
References
1944 in Poland
February 1944 events
Massacres in Poland
Conflicts in 1944
Massacres in 1944
War crimes committed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia
Mass murder in 1944
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