Kisielin massacre

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Kisielin massacre was a massacre which took place in the Volhynian village of Kisielin (50°22'12" N 24°16'48"), now located in the Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. It took place on Sunday, July 11, 1943, when units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, supported by the local Ukrainian peasants, surrounded Poles, who had gathered for a ceremony at a local Roman-Catholic church. Around 60 to 90 persons, men, women and kids, were ordered to take off their clothes and then all were massacred by a machine gun. The wounded were killed with such tools as axes and knives, and those who survived (around 200), escaped to the presbitery. Among survivors, there was mother of a Polish composer Krzesimir Debski, who in early 2000s went with her to Kisielin. His trip was featured in Agnieszka Arnold's 2003 movie Oczyszczenie (Cleansing).

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Władysław Siemaszko, Ewa Siemaszko "Ludobójstwo dokonane przez nacjonalistów ukraińskich na ludności polskiej Wołynia 1939-1945, Warszawa 2000, ISBN 83-87689-34-3.
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