The Uroczysko Baran killing fields, often referred to in Poland as the "Little Katyn" or the "Second Katyn", was the location for secret executions of soldiers and officers of the Polish Underground S
One of the mass graves of Uroczysko Baran
Honor guard at the Uroczysko Baran monument to murdered soldiers of AK and Second Army
27th Volhynian Infantry Division was a World War II Polish Home Army formed in the Volhynia region in 1944. It was created on January 15, 1944, from smaller partisan self-defence units during the Volh
Uroczysko Baran killing fields
…joined the fray. The Polish partisans from AK, WiN and BCh, captured in the vicinity – but also transported there from afar – like the soldiers of the 27th Home Army Infantry Division, were executed across the vast area of the forest spanning well over a dozen hectares. Mass graves were planted over with small pine trees by the…
An official oath of the division's soldiers, winter 1944