Gurów massacre was a wartime massacre of the Polish population of Gurów , committed on 11 July 1943 by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army death squad from Group " Piwnicz " and Ukrainian peasants , during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia . Crime scene was the prewar village of Gurów located in Gmina Grzybowica , Powiat Włodzimierz in the Wołyń Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic ( since 1945 : Volodymyr-Volynskyi Raion in the Volyn Oblast , modern Грибовицька волость , Ukraine ) . Gurów village no longer exists . According to historian Władysław Filar , of the 480 Polish inhabitants of Gurów some 70 people managed to escape death by hiding from the assailants . Historians Władysław and Ewa Siemaszko were able to confirm by name the 200 Poles and 2 Jews killed in Gurów . The massacres , which began at 3 in the morning at Gurów Wielki and Gurów Mały , spread to nearby Wygranka , Zdżary , Zabłoćce , Sądowa , Nowiny , Zagaje ( see : Zagaje massacre ) , Poryck ( see : Poryck massacre ) , Oleń , Orzeszyn , Romanówka , Lachów , and Gucin .
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
Gurów massacre