Budy Ossowskie massacre

Mass murder in Poland during World War II.

51°13′0″N 24°43′0″E / 51.21667°N 24.71667°E / 51.21667; 24.71667Date29 August 1943TargetPoles

Attack type

Shooting and stabbingWeaponsAxes, bludgeons, bayonetsDeaths290 ^[1]PerpetratorsUkrainian Insurgent ArmyMotiveAnti-Catholicism, Anti-Polish sentiment, Greater Ukraine

Budy Ossowskie massacre was a mass murder of ethnic Poles carried out on 29–30 August 1943 by a death squad of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army aided by the Ukrainian peasants during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. About 290 people were killed, including women and children,^[1] all of them, Polish inhabitants of the Budy Ossowskie village, located in the Kowel County (powiat kowelski) of the Wołyń Voivodeship in the Second Polish Republic (now, part of the Kovel Raion, south-west of Kovel, Ukraine).^[2] Budy Ossowskie village does not exist anymore. It was burned to the ground by the OUN-UPA. The charred remnants of the village were cleared in Soviet Ukraine for grazing cattle.^[2] Overall, in the Kowel County some 7,300 ethnic Poles were murdered.^[3]

Commemorative stone listing locations of OUN-UPA murders with the mention of Budy Ossowskie

References

^ ^a ^b Władysław Siemaszko, Ewa Siemaszko, Ludobójstwo dokonane przez nacjonalistów ukraińskich na ludności polskiej Wołynia 1939-1945, Warszawa 2000, p. 380.
^ ^a ^b Strony o Wołyniu (October 2008). "Wieś Budy Ossowskie, gmina Turzysk, powiat Kowel, woj. wołyńskie". Wolyn.ovh.org. Archived from the original on 2016-12-01. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
^ Wołyń naszych przodków (2016). "Powiat kowelski". NaWolyniu.pl. Liczbę ofiar polskich w tym powiecie ocenia się na 7,300 osób.