First UPA attack on Mizocz
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Axis victory
- Beginning of the attacks on the Mizocz
- 80% destruction of Mizocz
changes Withdrawal of UPA forces
| First UPA attack on Mizocz | |||||||||
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| Part of Polish-Ukrainian ethnic conflict during Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Ukrainian Insurgent Army | |||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Unknown or lack of a unified commander |
Petro Olijnyk | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| Incomplete company of the Hungarian army, Schutzmannschaft (about 40 policemen), armed Poles | Sotnias dubienskiy and krzemienieckiy kurienskiy | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Unknown | 27 killed or wounded[1] | ||||||||
| 100 Polish civilians killed | |||||||||
The first UPA attack on Mizocz - an attack by Ukrainian Insurgent Army units on the town of Mizocz, located in the Zdolbunov district of Volhynia province, and battles with a Hungarian army unit and police, combined with the murder of more than 100 Poles and the burning of most of the village buildings. The attack took place on the night of 24 to 25 August or 31 August to 1 September 1943, during the German occupation. The consequence of the attack was the evacuation of the surviving Polish civilians to Zdolbunov.
From the beginning of the German occupation, the Ukrainians of Mizocz began to show hostility towards the Poles, but according to Władysław and Ewa Siemaszek, the presence of a company of Germans on the site prevented them from making more anti-Polish appearances until the summer of 1943. There were murders of individuals and, in July 1943, the murder of 15 people grazing cattle. During the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, Polish refugees from villages exterminated by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) were drawn to the town; burials of brought bodies took place in the cemetery every day. Some of the new arrivals, seeing no possibility of survival, volunteered for forced labour in the Third Reich or left for larger centres. Among the refugees, the Germans recruited 40 men for the police. From 1943, a Hungarian company was also stationed in the town and helped the Poles by feeding them and giving them weapons.[2]
In the summer of 1943, a company of Germans left Mizocz and the Hungarian garrison was also reduced. The Hungarians and the police were stationed in the buildings of Count Dunin-Karwicki's palace and the sugar factory, which were located in the western part of the town.[2]
In August 1943, the Miso people lived in anticipation of an attack by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army; just before the attack, the Ukrainians moved out of the town.[2] Stanisława Kowalska was warned of the attack by the Ukrainian Dawidiuk.[3]
