Zagaje massacre was a mass murder of ethnic Poles carried out on 1112 July 1943 by the troops of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army group " Piwnicz " , aided by the Ukrainian peasants , during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia . Approximately 260350 people were killed , including women and children . The village Zagaje was levelled out and does not exist anymore . It was located in the gmina Podberezie of the Horochów County ( '' powiat horochowski '' ) in the Wołyń Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic ( now , Horokhiv Raion , Ukraine ) . Overall , in the Horochów County some 4,200 ethnic Poles were murdered , in nearly hundreds of separate locations before the end of the Polish-Ukrainian conflict . The village Zagaje is not to be confused with the Zagaje colony , located in gmina Czaruków , powiat Łuck , of the same voivodeship
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
Zagaje massacre