Pańska Dolina was a village in Gmina

Gmina

The gmina is the principal unit of administrative division of Poland at its lowest uniform level. It is often translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2010 there were 2,479 gminas throughout the country...

 Młynów, Dubno County in Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939), before the Nazi German and Soviet invasions of Poland in September of 1939

Invasion of Poland (1939)

The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War in Poland and the Poland Campaign in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War II in Europe...

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The village was one of several points of Polish defence against the OUN-UPA murderous raids 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...

 between 1942 and 1945. The Polish self-defence unit represented mostly by Armia Krajowa

Armia Krajowa

The Armia Krajowa , or Home Army, was the dominant Polish resistance movement in World War II German-occupied Poland. It was formed in February 1942 from the Związek Walki Zbrojnej . Over the next two years, it absorbed most other Polish underground forces...

 managed to hold their position there till the arrival of the Red Army

Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...

 in 1944. The village offered protection to Polish and Jewish escapees from the area, provided food and shelter, and organised counter-attacks against the UPA attackers.

The list of villages from the area that managed to defend themselves successfully against the genocide being committed by the Ukrainians include: Pańska Dolina, Zaturce, Huta Stara

Stara Huta, Starovyzhivskyi Raion

Stara Huta is a village in Starovyzhivskyi Raion, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. The population of the village is 1024 people.-History:...

, Zasmyki, Dąbrowa, Dederkały, Rybcza, Jagodzin-Rymacze, Przebraże

Przebraze Defence

The Przebraże Defence was the World War II defence of Przebraże, a Polish settlement, located in Lutsk county, Volhynian Voivodeship, near the village of Troscianiec. Between 1919 and 1939, the settlement belonged to the Second Polish Republic; it exists no more.-Location:The Przebraże settlement...

, Rożyszcze, Antonówka Szepelska, Bielm-Spaszczyzna, Witoldówka, Ostróg; as well as Młynów, Kurdybań Warkowicki

Kurdyban Warkowicki

Before the 1939 Nazi German and Soviet invasions of Poland Kurdybań Warkowicki or Kurdyban–Warkowicki was a village in Wołyń Voivodeship near the town of Warkowicze in Dubno County, in the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic .The village was a site of an OUN-UPA ethnic cleansing operation...

, Lubomirka, Klewań, Rokitno

Rokitno

Rokitno may refer to the following places:*Rokitno, Biała Podlaska County in Lublin Voivodeship *Rokitno, Lubartów County in Lublin Voivodeship *Rokitno, Tomaszów Lubelski County in Lublin Voivodeship...

, Budki Snowidowickie, and Osty.