Kysorychi ( uk, Кисоричі, pl, Kisorycze) is a village located in Sarny Raion,

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, but was formerly administered within Rokytne Raion. Volhynia Gazetteer. Location according to SGGEE guideline, p. 35: Rokitno (Rokytne)
Before the 1939 Nazi German and Soviet invasions of Poland, the village was named Kisorycze and was located in Gmina Kisorycze,

Sarny Sarny ( uk, Сáрни), translated as '' Does'', is a small city in Rivne Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Sarny Raion (district), and is a major railway node on the Sluch River. Population: History His ...

County, Wołyń Voivodeship in the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic. The biggest employer in the area was a glass factory in Rokytne (Рокитне) 8 km north of town, employing 400 workers.

World War II

The village was one of hundreds of sites of mass killings during the wave 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 ...

between 1942 and 1945. Polish families were murdered there by UPA death squads aided by the local Ukrainians; as in the case of the Żołnowski family, choked to death with a rope by their own neighbors. The eye-witness account was provided by the Żołnowski wife, who survived by pretending to be dead. The local Polish teacher Felicja Masojada, with Kasper Koziński and his Ukrainian wife Hanka and maid Cita, were ambushed on the road. Hanka (the Ukrainian) was sent home, but the rest were led into the forest by a death squad (sotnia) of Hrytsko Kashketsyuk, Ivan Kulpach "Tryhub", Ivan Shelyuk, Ivan Voloshyn, and Kostyantyn and Semen Kovalchuk, where the women were hanged upside down and dismembered. Excerpt from a book ''Było ich trzy'' by Bronisław Janik
Published in 1970;

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: Książka i Wiedza, 321 pages
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* Andrzej Mielcarek
Strony o Wołyniu
2003-2008 *

from Władysław and Ewa Siemaszko, ''Ludobójstwo''. * Magdalena Żuraw
Na pohybel Lacham
20 July 2008 Villages in Sarny Raion Ovruchsky Uyezd Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939) Sites of World War II massacres of Poles World War II sites in Ukraine {{Rivne-geo-stub

World War II

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