Baligród massacre

The Baligród massacre was committed on August 6, 1944 in Baligród, Lesko County by Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

Events 

The perpetrators entered the village of Baligród to kill 42 Poles. They surrounded Poles, who were in a local church, and killed some of them when they left the church. They reportedly did this in revenge for the murder of 16 Ukrainians in Stężnica by some Baligród villagers and Soviet partisans on August 4, 1944. Grzegorz Motyka, W kręgu "Łun w Bieszczadach", Warszawa 2009, 



Related pages

 Stepan Bandera
 Volhynia massacre

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References

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