Leonówka massacre
1943 CE.
Shown on the map at 50.757°, 26.618°.
In early August 1943, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed approximately 190 Polish people in Leonówka, a colony in Tuchyn, Rovensky Uyezd, Wołyń Voivodeship, as part of the larger campaign of massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, considered as a genocide. On the night of August 1-2, 1943, Leonówka, which was home to about 300 Poles and several Ukrainian families, was surrounded by a 100-strong UPA unit arriving from the village of Żelanka. The UPA insurgents threw grenades into houses, entered homes, and murdered their inhabitants. Those who tried to flee were shot; all buildings were set on fire. It is estimated that about 150 people were killed. Around 2 a.m., the Ukrainian unit left the burned-down village. On August 2 or 3, 1943, a group of UPA insurgents on horseback stopped Polish refugees from the village of Kudranka passing through Leonówka. The Poles were robbed of their belongings, taken to a nearby forest, and murdered there. 42 people were killed. Citizens of the village Leonowka were likely last documented in 1926 in a 'Birthday Card' sent to America from Poland. This has the historical value of a census.
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