Huta Pieniacka massacre
1944 CE.
Shown on the map at 49.902°, 25.099°.
The Huta Pieniacka massacre was a mass murder of the Polish inhabitants of the village Huta Pieniacka, located in modern-day Brody hromada, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine, which took place on 28 February 1944. Estimates of the number of victims range from 500 (Timothy Snyder) to 600-800 (Grzegorz Motyka) to 1,200 (Sol Littman). A 2003 investigation by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance and a 2005 investigation by the Institute of History at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences both concluded that the Galician SS carried out a massacre of civilians. They disagree on the scale and on the balance of responsibility between the Ukrainians and their German commanders. According to the Polish Institute of National Remembrance, —700 to 1,500 people, including around 1,000 Huta Pieniacka residents, plus people from surrounding villages who had sought refuge in the village, were killed, and the action was committed by the 4th SS Volunteer Galician Regiment and 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician). Polish witnesses testified that the orders were given by German officers.
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