Władysławin is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the administrative district of

Gmina Żółkiewka __NOTOC__ Gmina Żółkiewka is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Krasnystaw County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Żółkiewka, which lies approximately south-west of Krasnystaw and south-east of the ...

, within

Krasnystaw County __NOTOC__ Krasnystaw County () 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 reforms passed in 1998. It ...

Lublin Voivodeship Lublin Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) of Poland, located in the southeastern part of the country, with its capital being the city of Lublin. The region is named after its largest city and regional capital, Lu ...

, in eastern Poland. On July 23, 1944, as revenge for the killing by Polish partisans of an SS officer, the village of Władysławin, together with nearby

Chłaniów Chłaniów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żółkiewka, within Krasnystaw County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Żółkiewka, south-west of Krasnystaw, and south-east of the r ...

, was burned down by the Ukrainian Self-Defense Legion. Overall, 44 residents died in the two villages.

Grzegorz Motyka Grzegorz Motyka (born 1967) is a Polish historian and author specializing in the history of Poland–Ukraine relations. Since 1992 he served at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Institute of National ...

, ''Dywizja "SS-Galizien" ("Hałyczyna")'' in
Pamięć i Sprawiedliwość
', nr 1/2002, Warsaw 2002,

Instytut Pamięci Narodowej The Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (, abbreviated IPN) is a Polish state research institute in charge of education and archives which also includes two public prosecutio ...

, , p. 116

References

Villages in Krasnystaw County {{Krasnystaw-geo-stub