Roman Shukhevych
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Roman-Taras Osypovych Shukhevych was a Ukrainian nationalist and a military leader of the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which during the Second World War fought against the Soviet Union and to
Shukhevych in 1944
Shukhevych (left) in the Second Polish Republic in 1930
Schutzmannschaft Battalion 201 leaders, with Roman Shukhevych (sitting, second from left), 1942
Shukhevych, October 1943
The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were carried out in German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, with the support of parts of the local Ukrainian population, against
Roman Shukhevych
…in early 1941, and as a Hauptmann of the German Schutzmannschaft 201 auxiliary police battalion in late 1941 and 1942. Shukhevych led some of the Galicia-Volhynia massacres, where tens of thousands of Polish civilians were killed. It is unclear to what extent Shukhevych was responsible for the massacres of Poles in Volhynia…
Polish victims of a massacre committed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in the village of Lipniki, Volhynia, 1943
GUS languages 1931 Poland
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.