Kortelisy

Kortelisy
Kortelisy
Village
	Flag Coat of arms
	Kortelisy
	Coordinates: 51°51′9″N 24°25′49.08″E / 51.85250°N 24.4303000°E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Volyn
Raion	Ratne
Destruction	22 September 1941

Kortelisy is a village in Ukraine which was destroyed on September 23, 1942, by Germany during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. Almost the entire population of Kortelisy, then amounting to 2,892 people, were killed by the German forces.^[1]^[2]^[3]^: 281 The Nazis were assisted by local Ukrainian police.^[4]

The village was later rebuilt.^[5]

Less well-known are reports that the German Army destroyed a total of 459 villages in Ukraine, killing many or all of their residents.^[6]^[7]

References

^ TLV-01, von (2012-09-22). "Nach dem Massaker weinte der Himmel". haGalil (in German). Retrieved 2021-11-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ TLV-01, von (2012-10-14). "Ganz normale Männer". haGalil (in German). Retrieved 2021-11-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Herald, The Greek (2021-06-10). "Remembering the victims of the Distomo massacre". The Greek Herald. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
^ Ivan Katchanovski (2015). "Terrorists or national heroes? Politics and perceptions of the OUN and the UPA in Ukraine". Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 48 (2–3): 217–228. doi:10.1016/j.postcomstud.2015.06.006.
^ "Resurrected from flames" (February 1980). Ukraine (illustrated monthly). ISSN 0203-5898. "But the village stands to this day, a bright, noisy and flowering village resurrected from flames."
^ Vogels, Fred (2 September 1942). "Kortelisy its entire population of 2,892 men put to death". Back to Normandy. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
^ "World War II in Ukraine: Kortelisy (Ukraine), Lidice (Czechoslovakia) & Oradour-sur-Glane (France): Razed Villages". 2012-02-04. Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2021-11-11.

External links

World War II in Ukraine: Kortelisy (Ukraine), Lidice (Czechoslovakia) & Oradour-sur-Glane (France): Razed Villages.
[1]: The Kortelisy Massacre

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[1] TLV-01, von (2012-09-22). "Nach dem Massaker weinte der Himmel". haGalil (in German). Retrieved 2021-11-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[2] TLV-01, von (2012-10-14). "Ganz normale Männer". haGalil (in German). Retrieved 2021-11-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[3] Herald, The Greek (2021-06-10). "Remembering the victims of the Distomo massacre". The Greek Herald. Retrieved 2024-11-30.

[4] Ivan Katchanovski (2015). "Terrorists or national heroes? Politics and perceptions of the OUN and the UPA in Ukraine". Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 48 (2–3): 217–228. doi:10.1016/j.postcomstud.2015.06.006.

[5] "Resurrected from flames" (February 1980). Ukraine (illustrated monthly). ISSN 0203-5898. "But the village stands to this day, a bright, noisy and flowering village resurrected from flames."

[6] Vogels, Fred (2 September 1942). "Kortelisy its entire population of 2,892 men put to death". Back to Normandy. Retrieved 2021-11-11.

[7] "World War II in Ukraine: Kortelisy (Ukraine), Lidice (Czechoslovakia) & Oradour-sur-Glane (France): Razed Villages". 2012-02-04. Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2021-11-11.

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