| Budy Ossowskie massacre | |
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Location of the Massacre (map of theSecond Polish Republic from beforethe German-Soviet invasion of 1939) | |
 Interactive map of Budy Ossowskie massacre | |
| Location | 51°13′0″N24°43′0″E / 51.21667°N 24.71667°E /51.21667; 24.71667 Budy Ossowskie,Volhynian Voivodeship,occupied Poland |
| Date | 29 August 1943 |
| Target | Poles |
Attack type | Shooting and stabbing |
| Weapons | Axes, bludgeons, bayonets |
| Deaths | 290[1] |
| Perpetrators | Ukrainian Insurgent Army |
| Motive | Anti-Catholicism,Anti-Polish sentiment,Greater Ukraine |
Budy Ossowskie massacre was amass murder of ethnic Poles carried out on 29–30 August 1943 by adeath squad of theUkrainian Insurgent Army aided by the Ukrainian peasants during theMassacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. About 290 people were killed, including women and children,[1] all of them, Polish inhabitants of the Budy Ossowskie village, located in the Kowel County (powiat kowelski) of theWołyń Voivodeship in theSecond Polish Republic (now, part of theKovel Raion, south-west ofKovel, Ukraine).[2] Budy Ossowskie village does not exist anymore. It was burned to the ground by theOUN-UPA. The charred remnants of the village were cleared inSoviet Ukraine for grazing cattle.[2] Overall, in the Kowel County some 7,300 ethnic Poles were murdered.[3]
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Liczbę ofiar polskich w tym powiecie ocenia się na 7,300 osób.
