Uchanie

Uchanie [uˈxaɲɛ] is a village in Hrubieszów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.

Upon the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Uchanie had a population of 1,161 Jews.

The Jewish population was sent to nearby Hrubieszów, from where they were sent to the Sobibór extermination camp.

[2] According to the data of the ethnographic expedition of 1869-1870 under the leadership of Pavlo Chubynskyi, Greek Catholics who spoke Ukrainian lived in this village[3] Between the years of 1928-1932, the Polish government ordered the destruction of the local Orthodox church as part of a large-scale campaign to destroy Ukrainian churches in the Kholm region and Podlasie.

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Church of the Assumption, before 1900