The Pidkamin massacre or the Podkamień massacre of 12 March 1944 was the massacre of Polish civilians committed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) under the command of Maksym Skorupsky (Maks), in cooperation with a unit of the 14th SS-Volunteer Division "Galician". The victims were ethnic Polish residents of the Eastern Galician village of Podkamień in the occupied Second Polish Republic's Tarnopol Voivodeship. During the war the area was administratively part of the Nazi German Reichskommissariat Ukraine. Estimates of victims include 150, more than 250 and up to 1000.
Bullet marks on the Church of Ascension at the Pidkamin Abbey, stormed by UPA on 12 March 1944
Polish graveyard in Podkamien
14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)
The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS , commonly referred to as the Galicia Division, was a World War II infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the military wing of the German Nazi Party, made up predominantly of volunteers with a Ukrainian ethnic background from the area of Galicia, later also with some Slovaks.
Ukrainian members of the Nachtigall Battalion in 1941.
Celebrating its formation (top) and a recruitment center.
The division's recruitment poster from its newspaper.
Catholic Bishop Josaphat Kotsylovsky addressing the division volunteers.