Wołyń Voivodeship or Wołyń Province was an administrative region of interwar Poland (1918–1939) with an area of 35,754 km², 22 cities, and provincial capital...

Volhynian Voivodeship or Wołyń Voivodeship may refer to: Volhynian Voivodeship (1569–1795) Wołyń Voivodeship (1793) [pl] Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939) This...

interwar period, the city was known as Łuck and was part of the Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939) in the Second Polish Republic. Łuck was in the eastern part...

Anna Walentynowicz (Polish pronunciation: [ˈanna valɛntɨˈnɔvʲit͡ʂ]; née Lubczyk; 15 August 1929 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish free trade union activist...

of Poland, a part of World War II. Raised from recruits in the area of Wołyń, the division was posted to the Łódź Army. During several desperate counter-attacks...

this brigade until its mobilization in August 1939. During the mobilization of the Polish Army (summer 1939), 12th Podolian Uhlan Regiment was transferred...

Bogusław Litwiniec (1 November 1931 – 25 December 2022) was a Polish theatre director and politician. A member of the Democratic Left Alliance, he served...

Volhynian District was a district of the Civil Administration of the Eastern Lands from September 1919 to January 1920, Civil Administration of the Lands...

was one of the battles between the Polish Army and the Red Army fought in 1939 in the beginning of the Second World War. During the invasion of Poland,...

massacre in the village of Kisielin (now Kysylyn), located in the Wołyń Voivodeship in Poland before World War II, (now in Ukraine). The film, directed...

Netreba was a village in Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939), in Sarny county, gmina Kisorycze, Poland, destroyed by the UPA in July 1943. Many of its residents...

Josef "Joe" Tarnowski (19 March 1922, in Maniewicze – 12 September 2010, in Edinburgh) was a Polish-Scottish electronics engineer and intelligence officer...

Michael Yakovlevich Antonyuk (Russian: Михаил Яковлевич Антонюк; (12 March 1935 – 14 April 1993) was a prominent honorary artist of the Republic of Kazakhstan...

Wladimir Wertelecki is a pediatrician and medical geneticist. In 1974, he established one of the first free-standing Departments of Medical Genetics at...

Janusz Ignacy Gronowski (2 January 1935 – 14 June 2024) was a Polish athlete. He competed in the men's pole vault at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Gronowski...

Romuald Jankowski Born (1934-02-19)19 February 1934 Lutsk, Wołyń Voivodeship, Poland Died 12 February 1994(1994-02-12) (aged 59) Warsaw, Poland Nationality...

Jan Kobylański (21 July 1923, Równe, Poland – 27 March 2019, Montevideo, Uruguay) was a Polish-Paraguayan businessman. He was the founder of the Union...

Maria Berny, née Waćkowska (born 7 August 1932, in Trościanka, Wołyń) is a Polish politician, activist and senator of the 3rd and 5th republic in Poland...

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic after the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 when Kravchuk was a child. His father served in the Polish army during the...

in mid-September 1939 to abandon the bunkers and to move with their equipment towards the Romanian Bridgehead. On 16 September 1939, the eve of Soviet...

in early September 1921, the unit was loaded on a train, and transported to Rowne, where it remained until 1939. In March 1921, Polish military authorities...

Division, under Colonel Władysław Kaliński, was mobilised on August 14 and 15, 1939. A few days later it was transported by rail to the area of Bydgoszcz, where...

1929-30; as voivode of Volhynian Voivodeship (1928–38); and as voivode of Łódź Voivodeship (1938–1939). As voivode of Wołyń, a region with a large Ukrainian...

Stanisław Bolkowski (12 December 1930 – 14 July 2023) was a Polish scientist, professor, engineer, academic teacher, deputy chairman of the Electrotechnical...

was a Polish village in Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939) before the joint Nazi German and Soviet invasions of Poland in 1939. It was located near the town...

Florian Siwicki (Polish pronunciation: [ˈflɔrjan ɕiˈvit͡skʲi]; 10 January 1925 – 11 March 2013) was a Polish military officer, diplomat and communist politician...

the UPA actions resulted in an estimated number of 68,700 deaths in Wołyń Voivodeship. Per Anders Rudling states that the UPA killed 40,000–70,000 Poles...

had an overwhelmingly Jewish population. The Second World War broke out in 1939 when she was 14. The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact divided Poland between Germany...

(/voʊˈlɪniə/ voh-LIN-ee-ə; Ukrainian: Волинь, romanized: Volynʹ, Polish: Wołyń, ‹See Tfd›Russian: Волынь, romanized: Volynʹ, Yiddish: װאָלין, romanized: Volin)...

in Volhynia, a region which until 1939 had belonged to the Second Polish Republic (see Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939)), in January 1944, after the Red...