Hutysche ( uk, Гутище, pl, Hucisko Oleskie, also known as ''Huta Oleska'' or ''Huta Olejska'') is a village in
Zolochiv Raion,
Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a relational adjective—in English translating to a noun adjunct w ...
,
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
. It belongs to
Zolochiv urban hromada, one of the
hromadas of Ukraine.
Hutysche is located on the road to
Zolochiv. In 2001, it had 114 residents.
Before the
Nazi German and Soviet invasions of Poland, it was located in
Second Polish Republic. The village was a site of
massacres of Poles in Volhynia
The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia ( pl, rzeź wołyńska, lit=Volhynian slaughter; uk, Волинська трагедія, lit=Volyn tragedy, translit=Volynska trahediia), were carried out in German-occupied Poland by the ...
by the Ukrainian
OUN-
UPA between 1942 and 1945. In October 1944 and in December 1944
Christmas Eve raids, Zygmunt Konopka and Józef Gabinski were executed there.
Polish villagers of Hucisko have been noted for harboring Jews trying to escape the Nazi German
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...
.
[Donald L. Niewyk]
Fresh Wounds
Published by UNC Press. Page 164
References
External links
* Władysław Kubów,
Terroryzm na Podolu Warsaw, 2003
*
Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwow Panstwowych
Villages in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast
Holocaust locations in Ukraine
Sites of World War II massacres of Poles
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