Hucisko Oleskie, also known as Huta Oleska or Huta Olejska was a village near Huta Werchobuska on the road to Złoczów in Złoczów County, Tarnopol Voivodeship

Tarnopol Voivodeship

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, before the Nazi German and Soviet invasions of Poland

Invasion of Poland (1939)

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 located in Second Polish Republic

Second Polish Republic

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, now in Ukraine

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. The village was one of hundreds of sites of ethnic killings during the wave of massacres of Poles in Volhynia

Massacres of Poles in Volhynia

The Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were part of an ethnic cleansing operation carried out by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army West in the Nazi occupied regions of the Eastern Galicia , and UPA North in Volhynia , beginning in March 1943 and lasting until the end of...

 by the Ukrainian OUN-UPA death squad

Death squad

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s between 1942 and 1945.

In October 1944 and in December 1944 Christmas Eve

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 raids, Zygmunt Konopka and Józef Gabinski were executed there. Polish villagers of Hucisko have been noted for harboring Jews trying to escape the Nazi German Holocaust.