Huta Pieniacka

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Huta Pieniacka (Ukrainian: Гута Пеняцька, Huta Penyats'ka) was a Polish village of about 1,000 inhabitants (as of 1944) in Tarnopol Voivodship, now in Ukraine, about 50 km away from Ternopil, beside the Ukrainian village of Holubytsya (Ukrainian: Голубиця) in Brody Raion of Lviv Oblast. Almost all the villagers were brutally murdered on February 28, 1944 and the village burnt down.

The Warsaw branch of Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) started an investigation on the crime in November 1992. The investigation was subsequently suspended between 1997 and 2001 and is now conducted by Kraków branch of the Institute. According to the investigation, the people in the village were murdered by police units of Ukrainian Division "Galizien" of Waffen-SS.^[1] Several Ukrainian historians deny the role of the Ukrainian SS in the killings, and attribute them entirely to German SS units.^[2]

On February 28, 1989 a memorial was built on the place of the previous village but was soon destroyed . A new monument commemorating the victims was erected in 2005.

[edit] See also

• 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Galizien (1st Ukrainian)

[edit] References

• (English) Investigation of the Crime Committed at the Village of Huta Pieniacka - Institute of National Remembrance
• (Polish) ↑  Bogusława Marcinkowska Ustalenia wynikające ze śledztwa w sprawie zbrodni ludobójstwa funkcjonariuszy SS "GALIZIEN" i nacjonalistów ukraińskich na Polakach w Hucie Pieniackiej 28 lutego 1944 roku. - Institute of National Remembrance
• (Ukrainian) ↑  Ihor Ilyushyn. Tragedy of Volynia 1943-1944. Kiev: Institute History of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2003. - 312 s. Available online in www.archives.gov.ua
• (Ukrainian) Ihor Holog. Newspaper "Moloda Halychyna" 15 July 2004
• (Ukrainian) Statement brotherhood warrior of OUN-UPA
• (Ukrainian) Newspaper "Ukrayinske slovo"