Hurby massacre was a mass murder of the Polish population of the Hurby village , perpetrated on June 2 , 1943 , by a death squad of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army ( UPA ) and so-called brushwood self defence commando ( , СКВ ) made up of Ukrainian peasants , during the province-wide Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia in World War II . Hurby ( ) belonged to the Second Polish Republic before the war began . It used to be located in the powiat Zdobłunowski of the Wołyń Voivodeship . It is now a valley ( урочище , or '' uroczysko '' ) by the same name in western Ukraine . About 250 Poles were murdered in the attack , which was confirmed by the UPA commander for Volyn , Dmytro Klyachkivsky , who said in his communique of June 1943 that Hurby " went up in smoke "
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
Hurby massacre