Bodnariv (, ) is a village in

Kalush Raion Kalush Raion () is a raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province). The city of Kalush is the administrative center of the raion. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Ivan ...

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History

Bednarów was part of

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and had a

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church in 1900. It was attacked by the

Ukrainian Insurgent Army The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist partisan formation founded by the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) on 14 October 1942. The UPA launched guerrilla warfare against Nazi Germany, the S ...

in 1944 during the

Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia The Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (; ) were carried out in Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), with the support of parts of the local Ukrainians, Ukrainian popu ...

. 250 people were killed in the . The town's

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was also burned down. Only 14 survived. There is a monument in the town to

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Oleksandr Lutskyi, who was born in the village.Літопис УПА

Notable residents

Celestyn Chołodecki Celestyn Chołodecki (1816–1867) was a member from the szlachta (noble) family of Chołodecki. Like his son to follow, Józef Białynia Chołodecki, Celestyn Chołodecki was a writer and frequent contributor to leaflets calling for Poland's indep ...

Tomasz Chołodecki Tomasz Chołodecki (21 December 1813 – 17 July 1880) was a political activist and Poland, Polish rebel and soldier, who took part in almost every major event that supported Poland's independence in the 19th century. November uprising Tomasz Ch ...

References

Villages in Kalush Raion War crimes committed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army {{IvanoFrankivsk-geo-stub