Dominopol massacre
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Dominopol (Russian: Доминополь; Ukrainian: Домінопіль) is a defunct village located in the present-day area of Volodymyr-Volynskyi Raion of Volyn Oblast in Ukraine. On July 11, 1943, at the height of the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia, the village was attacked by a death squad of Ukrainian Insurgent Army aided by the Ukrainian peasants, and all ethnic Poles regardless of age and gender were tortured and murdered.[citation needed] Before World War II, Dominopol was a village in the Eastern regions of the Second Polish Republic, located in the Gmina Werba, Powiat Włodzimierz of the Wołyń Voivodeship.[2] The area was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1939 and during Operation Barbarossa annexed by Nazi Germany into Reichskommissariat Ukraine in 1941.
Dominopol massacre | |
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Location | Dominopol, Volhynian Voivodeship, occupied Poland |
Coordinates | 50°55′00″N 24°34′00″E |
Date | July 11, 1943 |
Target | ethnic Poles |
Attack type | Shooting and stabbing |
Weapons | Rifles, axes, bludgeons and pitchforks |
Deaths | 490 [1] with 250 victims confirmed |
Perpetrators | Ukrainian Insurgent Army |
Motive | Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Polish sentiment, Greater Ukraine |