Budy Ossowskie massacre

Budy Ossowskie massacre was the mass murder of ethnic Poles committed on August 29–30, 1943 by a death squad of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army during the Volhynia massacre. About 290 people were killed, including women and children.Władysław Siemaszko, Ewa Siemaszko, Ludobójstwo dokonane przez nacjonalistów ukraińskich na ludności polskiej Wołynia 1939-1945, Warszawa 2000, p. 380. The Budy Ossowskie village no longer exists. It was burned to the ground by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. The remnants of the village were cleared in Soviet Ukraine for grazing cattle. Some 7,300 ethnic Poles were killed in the Kowel County.


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Category:Massacres
Category:World War II
Category:1940s in Poland
Category:1940s in Ukraine