Pawłokoma

Pawłokoma
Village
Pawłokoma
Pawłokoma
Coordinates: 49°48′42″N22°17′18″E / 49.81167°N 22.28833°E / 49.81167; 22.28833
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Subcarpathian
County	Rzeszów
Gmina	Dynów
Population	518

Pawłokoma [pavwɔˈkɔma] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dynów, within Rzeszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. ^[1] It lies approximately 5 km (3 mi) south-east of Dynów and 32 km (20 mi) south-east of the regional capital Rzeszów. It is also 35 km (22 mi) west of Przemyśl.

History

Further information: Pawłokoma massacre

In the late stages of the Volyn massacres, in March 1945, 365 Ukrainian, ^[2] and a few Polish, inhabitants of the village were murdered by a former Armia Krajowa unit, commanded by Józef Biss "Wacław". A monument to commemorate the Ukrainian victims of the Pawłokoma massacre was erected in 2005.

References

1. "Główny Urząd Statystyczny" [Central Statistical Office] (in Polish). To search: Select "Miejscowości (SIMC)" tab, select "fragment (min. 3 znaki)" (minimum 3 characters), enter town name in the field below, click "WYSZUKAJ" (Search).
2. Zhurzhenko, Tatiana (2013). "Memory wars and reconciliation in the Ukrainian-Polish borderlands: geopolitics of memory from a local perspective". In Mink, Georges; Neumayer, Laure (eds.). History, Memory and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Memory Games. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 186.