Holosko Welyke ( uk, Голоско Велике, pl, Hołosko Wielkie) was a
village
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in
Lwów Voivodeship
Lwów Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo lwowskie) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939). Because of the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in accordance with the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it became occupied by both the Weh ...
, eastern
Poland
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, before the
Nazi German and Soviet invasions of Poland in September 1939. It is now a suburb of
Lviv
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,
Ukraine
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.
Holosko Welyke was a site of a fierce defence by the Polish
Polish_ Polish_army_order_of_battle">army.html"_;"title="Polish_army">Polish_army_order_of_battle_in_1939.html" ;"title="army_order_of_battle.html" ;"title="army.html" ;"title="Polish army">Polish army order of battle">army.html" ;"title="Polish army">Polish army order of battle in 1939">35th Infantry Division - Reserve (''35 Dywizja Piechoty - Rezerwowa'') on September 15–16, 1939, against the invading German forces.
Bibliography
* Tadeusz Jaruga: ''Wojsko Polskie : krótki informator historyczny o Wojsku Polskim w latach II wojny światowej. 7, Regularne jednostki Wojska Polskiego w 1939 : organizacja, działania bojowe, uzbrojenie, metryki związków operacyjnych, dywizji i brygad''. Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej 1975.
* Jerzy Prochwicz, ''Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza w przededniu wojny, Część II. Przemiany organizacyjne i przygotowania wojenne KOP w 1939 roku'', Wojskowy Przegląd Historyczny Nr 4 (150) z 1994 r., s. 3-13,
* Ryszard Dalecki: ''Armia „Karpaty” w wojnie obronnej 1939 r.'', Rzeszów 1989, wyd. II,
* Stepan Makarczuk, “Straty ludności w Galicji Wschodniej w latach II wojny światowej (1939–1945),” in Polska–Ukraina: Trudne pytania, vol. 6 (Warsaw: Światowy Związek Żołnierzy Armii Krajowej, Związek Ukraińców w Polsce, and Karta, 2000), p.240
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