Chodaczkow Wielki massacre

Chodaczkow Wielki massacre took place in an ethnic Polish village of Chodaczków Wielki, located in the Tarnopol Voivodeship in the territory of the Second Polish Republic. Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland and subsequently, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, on April 16, 1944, during the wave of massacres of Poles in Volhynia, the village was destroyed by the Ukrainian SS Division Galicia. 862 Poles were murdered, and about 500 houses were burned down. It was one of the biggest massacres of Poles in the region of Eastern Galicia.

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 II , Polish survivors of the massacre were forced to leave their homeland and settled around Gogolin and Niemodlin in the Opole Voivodeship.
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