Chodaczkow Wielki massacre
- Chodaczkow Wielki massacre
Chodaczkow Wielki was an ethnic Polish village, located in the Tarnopol Voivodeship, in the territory of Kresy. On April 16, 1944, units of the Ukrainian 14th Waffen SS Division murdered 862 inhabitants of the village, including children and senior citizens. The village was burned to the ground with phosphorus bullets and as such ceased to exist. The Ukrainian SS unit then proceeded to the nearby city of Tarnopol (located some 14 kilometers away), which was surrounded by the advancing Red Army.
Those Poles who survived, buried the dead in a mass grave, in front of the local Roman-Catholic church. The grave was 2 meters deep and 30 meters long, bodies were placed in layers. After World War Two, Polish survivors of the massacre were forced to leave their homeland and settled around Gogolin and Niemodlin in the Opole Voivodeship.
ee also
* Huta Pieniacka massacre,
* Massacres of Poles in Volhynia
ources
* [http://www.narubiezy.republika.pl/ Na rubiezy - a Society of Remembrance of Victims of Ukrainian Nationalists]
* [http://glogowek-online.pl/content/view/31/7/ Memoirs of Teofila Kolodenna, born in 1929 in Chodaczkow Wielki]
* Aleksander Korman, "Nieukarane zbrodnie SS-Galizien z lat 1943-1945" ("Unpunished crimes of SS-Galizien in the years 1943-1945"), London 1989.
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