Pawłokoma

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 kilometres (3 mi) south-east of Dynów and 32 km (20 mi) south-east of the regional capital Rzeszów.

In the late stages of the Volyn tragedy, 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.

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