The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were carried out in German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) with the support of parts of the local Ukrainian population against the Polish minority in Volhynia, Eastern Galicia, parts of Polesia and the Lublin region from 1943 to 1945. The ruling Germans also actively encouraged both Ukrainians and Poles to kill each other.
Polish victims of a massacre committed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in the village of Lipniki, Wołyń (Volhynia), 1943
Dmytro Klachkivsky, commander of UPA units in Volhynia, who ordered the genocide of Poles in the region
The Kisielin massacre was a slaughter of Polish worshippers on 11 July 1943 during a Sunday mass
Stepan Bandera
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Stepan Andriyovych Bandera was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical militant wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B).
Young Bandera in the Plast uniform, 1923
Bandera in folkloristic Cossack costume
Press report from the trial of Bandera and his associates for the murder of Polish minister Bronisław Pieracki, 20 November 1935