List of estimates of the number of victims of the Volhynia massacre and of Polish retaliation

This list shows the casualty estimates of the massacres between Poles and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army during the Volhynia massacre.  

= Historian  = Political science  = Research group   
+ Estimates of casualties, Poles killed by Ukrainians Author Volhynia Galicia VOL+GAL E. Poland V+G+EP Quotes / Sources / Notes Timothy Snyder  50k  —  —    —  "Ukrainian partisans killed about fifty thousand Volhynian Poles and forced tens of thousands more to flee in 1943."  Timothy Snyder  >40k  10k  —  —  —  >40k in July '43, 10k is in March '44.   Timothy Snyder  40-60k  25k  —  5k  —  "UPA killed forty to sixty thousand Polish Civilians in Volhynia in 1943." "This apparent change, ..., limited the death toll of Polish civilians to about twenty-five thousand in Galicia." "All told, in the Lublin and Rzeszow regions, Poles and Ukrainians killed about five thousand of the other's civilians in 1943-44."  Timothy Snyder  —  5–10k  —  —  —  "Throughout spring 1944 [...] Polish preparations and Ukrainian warnings limited the deaths to perhaps 5,000–10,000"  Grzegorz Motyka  40-60k  —  —  6-8k  80-100k    Grzegorz Motyka  40-60k  30-40k  —  6-8k  100k    Ivan Katchanovski  35-60k  —  —    —  Katchanovski considers the lower bound 35k to be more likely; cited , . Grzegorz Hryciuk  35-60k  —  —    —   Cited by . Grzegorz Hryciuk  35.7-60k  —  —  —  —   Cited by Kalischuk. Grzegorz Hryciuk  —  20–24k  —  —  —  Straty ludnosci w Galicji Wschodniej w latach 1941–1945 / G. Hryciuk. Grzegorz Hryciuk  35.7-60k  20-24k  —  —  —   For Eastern Galicia "primary balance" relied on "fragmentary and often incomplete documentation" and witnesses' testimonies; 20-25k in 1941-1946 and 20-24k in 1943-1946. Paul Robert Magocsi  —  —  —  —  50k  "among the more reasonable estimates"   Niall Ferguson  —  —  60-80k    —   Fergusson is citing other authors (which ones?) John Paul Himka  —  —      —  "One of the things that emerged clearly from this discussion was that UPA and OUN were responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of Poles in Western Ukraine."  Per Anders Rudling  40-70k  —  —  7k    "Most mainstream estimates give the number of Volhynian Polish victims [...] as 40,000–70,000, [...] In Poland, [...] with 7,000 Poles [killed]."  Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe  —  —  70-100k  —  —    Ewa Siemaszko  60k  70k  130k    133k   According to Rudling this is the most extensive study of the Polish casualties. Marek Jasiak  —  —  —    60-70k  "In Podole, Volhynia, and Lublin".  Mikolaj Terles    50k  60-70k  100-200k  —    KARTA Center  35k  29.8k  —  6.5k  —  KARTA based mostly on: Siemaszko for Volhynia (documented number) and Czesław Blicharski for Tarnopol voivodsh. Cited by Kalishchuk: here  Kataryna Wolczuk  —  —  —    60-100k  Kataryna Wolczuk. "The Difficulties of Polish–Ukrainian Historical Reconciliation," paper published by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 2002. Cited by Marples. Common communicate of PL and UKR historians  50-60k  20-25k  —  5-6k      Ryszard Torzecki  30-40k  30-40k    10-20k(Polesie and Lublin)  80-100k     60-80k  —  —    —  "It is estimated that about 60, or even 80 thousand people of Polish nationality were murdered in Volhynia."   Norman Davies  —  —  —      Estimate includes both Poles and Ukrainians killed by UPA.  Czesław Partacz  —  —  —    134-200k   Lucyna Kulińska  —  —  —    150-200k   Anna M. Cienciala  —  —  40-60k      "During WWII, the Bandera faction of the Ukrainian Insurrectionary Army (UPA) murdered 40,000–60,000 Poles living in the villages of former Volhynia and former East Galicia."  Pertti Ahonen, et al.    —  —  —  100k  "The ethnic cleansing conducted by Ukrainian nationalists, discussed in chapter 2, killed about 100,000 Poles and made refugees out of another 300,000."  George Liber  25-70k  20-70k  50-100k    —  "Scholars in Poland, Ukraine, the United States, and Europe estimate that in 1943 and 1944 the members of the OUN-B and UPA killed between 25,000 to 70,000 Poles in Western Volhynia, and then another 20,000 to 70,000 in Eastern Galicia... between 50,000 to 100,000 Poles... died by violent means."  
Table notes:

+ Estimates of casualties, Ukrainians killed by Poles Author Volhynia Galicia VOL+GAL E. Poland V+G+EP Quotes / Sources / Notes Grzegorz Motyka  2-3k  —  —  8-12k  10-20k  1943–1947, The number for total includes those killed in Volhynia, Galicia, territories of present-day (eastern) Poland.  Grzegorz Motyka  2-3k  1-2k  —  8-10k  11-15k  1943–1947; According to Motyka, numbers of Ukrainian casualties from hands of Poles >= 30k are "simply pulled out of thin air".  Per Anders Rudling  20k  —    11k    "Most mainstream estimates give the number of Volhynian Polish victims [...] compared with some 20,000 Ukrainians killed by Polish forces. In Poland, the situation was the reverse, with some 11,000 Ukrainians killed, [...]"  Paul Robert Magocsi  —  —  —    20k  "among the more reasonable estimates"  Timothy Snyder  10k  —  —      "Over the course of 1943, perhaps ten thousand Ukrainian civilians were killed by Polish self-defence units, Soviet partisans, and German police."  Timothy Snyder  —  —  —  about 5k    "All told, in the Lublin and Rzeszow regions, Poles and Ukrainians killed about five thousand of the other's civilians in 1943–44."  Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe  —  —  —  —  10-20k  "Poles were fully responsible for killing between 10,000 and 20,000 Ukrainians (both OUN-UPA members and civilians) during and after World War II." Kataryna Wolczuk  —  —  15-30k       Cited by Marples. Katrina Witt  —  —  15-30k       Cited , who cites Wolczuk. KARTA Center  unknown  unknown  —  7.5k     Cited by Kalishchuk: here   L. Zashkilniak and M. Krykun  —  —  35k       Cited by Kalishchuk. Anna M. Cienciala  —  —  —  —  20k  "... the Poles killed some 20,000 Ukrainians, mostly in former East Galicia in reprisal."  George Liber  2-20k  1-4k  8-20k    —  "In [1943–44], the Home Army and other Polish underground units killed 2,000 to 20,000 Ukrainians in Western Volhynia and another 1,000 to 4,000 in Galicia." 

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