Author | Volhynia | Galicia | VOL+GAL | V+G+P | E. POL | Source | Notes |
Timothy Snyder | 50k | – | – | – | | In Past and Present (p. 202) | "Ukrainian partisans killed about fifty thousand Volhynian Poles and forced tens of thousands more to flee in 1943." |
Timothy Snyder | >40k | 10k | - | – | – | [1] | 10k is in March '44, >40k in July '43 |
Timothy Snyder | 40-60k in '43 | 25k | - | – | 5k | The Reconstruction of Nations, 2004 | 5k is Lublin and Rzeszów; "killed by the UPA"; "limited the death toll of Polish civilians to about twenty-five thousand in Galicia" |
Timothy Snyder | - | 5–10k | – | – | – | | "Throughout spring 1944"; "Polish preparations and Ukrainian warnings limited the deaths to perhaps 5,000–10,000" |
Grzegorz Motyka | 40-60k | – | - | 80-100k | 6-8k | W kręgu Łun w Bieszczadach, 2009, page 13 | net is from '43 to '47 |
Grzegorz Motyka | 40-60k | 30-40k | - | 100k | 6-8k | Od rzezi wołyńskiej do akcji "Wisła", 2011, pages 447–448 | |
Ivan Katchanovski | 35-60k | – | – | – | | Terrorists or National Heroes? Politics of the OUN and the UPA in Ukraine | Katchanovski considers the lower bound 35k to be more likely; cited Snyder, Hrytsiuk |
Grzegorz Hryciuk | 35-60k | – | – | – | | "Vtraty naselennia na Volyni u 1941-1944rr." Ukraina-Polshcha: Vazhki Pytannia, Vol. 5. Warsaw: Tyrsa, 2001 | Cited by Katchanovski |
Grzegorz Hryciuk | 35.7-60k | - | – | – | – | Hryciuk G. Przemiany narodowosciowe i ludnosciowe w Galicji Wschodniej i na Wolyniu w latach 1931–1948 / G. Hryciuk. – Torun, 2005. – S. 279.[a] | Cited by Kalischuk |
Grzegorz Hryciuk | - | 20–24k | - | – | – | Straty ludnosci w Galicji Wschodniej w latach 1941–1945 / G. Hryciuk // Polska–Ukraina: trudne pytania. – Warszawa, 2000. – V. 6. – P. 294.[b] | Cited by Kalischuk; from 43 to 46; 8820 in '43-mid'44; "according to relevant contemporary Polish sources" |
Grzegorz Hryciuk | 35.7-60k | 20-24k | - | – | - | G.Hryciuk, Przemiany narodowosciowe i ludnosciowe w Galicji Wschodniej i na Wolyniu w latach 1931–1948, Toruń 2005, pp. 279, 315 [c] | for Eastern Galicia "primary balance" relied on "fragmentary and often incomplete documentation" and witnesses' testimonies; 20-25k in 1941-1946 and 20-24k in 1943-1946 |
P.R. Magocsi | – | – | – | 50k | – | Magocsi; A History of Ukraine, 2010, pp. 681-682 | "among the more reasonable estimates" |
Niall Ferguson | – | – | 60-80k | - | | The war of the world, 2007[citation needed] | Fergusson is citing other authors (which ones?) |
John Paul Himka | – | – | "tens of thousands" | – | | [3] | "One of the things that emerged clearly from this discussion was that UPA and OUN were responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of Poles in Western Ukraine." |
Per Anders Rudling | 40-70k | – | - | | 7k | Theory and Practice, 2006 | below note |
Rossolinski-Liebe | – | – | 70-100k | – | - | The Ukrainian national revolution (2011), p. 84; Celebrating fascism... (2010), p. 3 | |
Ewa Siemaszko | 60k | 70k | 130k | 133k | | Bilans zbrodni, 2010 [4] | According to Rudling it is the most extensive study of the Polish casualties (Rudling, "The OUN, the UPA and the Holocaust...", p. 50) |
Marek Jasiak | – | – | – | 60-70k | | Redrawing Nations, p174 | "In Podole, Volhynia, and Lublin" |
Terles | | 50k | 60-70k | – | 100-200k | | In Ethnic Cleansing p. 61 |
Karta | 35k | 29.8k | – | – | 6.5k | "Polska-Ukraina", t.7, 2000, p. 159, cited by Kalishchuk: here [5] | Karta based mostly on: Siemaszko for Volhynia (documented number) and Cz.Blicharski for Tarnopol voivodsh. |
Katarina Wolczuk | – | - | – | 60-100k | | "The Difficulties of Polish–Ukrainian Historical Reconciliation," paper published by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 2002, cited by Marples | |
Common communicate of PL and UKR historians | 50-60k | 20-25k | – | | 5-6k | "Polska-Ukraina: trudne pytania", 2000, t. 9, p. 403. | "Polish casualties acc. to Polish sources" |
Ryszard Torzecki | 30-40k | 30-40k | | 80-100k | 10-20k (Polesie and Lublin) | R. Torzecki, Polacy i Ukraińcy. Sprawa ukraińska podczas II wojny światowej na terenie II Rzeczypospolitej, 1993, p. 267 | |
IPN | 60-80k | – | – | – | | Oddziałowa Komisja w Lublinie, January 2012 | "It is estimated that about 60, or even 80 thousand people of Polish nationality were murdered in Volhynia." |
Norman Davies | – | – | - | "hundreds of thousands" | | 'God's playground. A history of Poland', Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 350 [6] | Estimate includes both Poles and Ukrainians killed by UPA |
Czesław Partacz | – | – | – | 134-200k | | Przemilczane w ukraińskiej historiografii przyczyny ludobójstwa popełnionego przez OUN-UPA na ludności polskiej [in:] Prawda historyczna na prawda polityczna w badaniach naukowych. Przykład ludobójstwa na Kresach Południowo-Wschodniej Polski w latach 1939–1946, Bogusław Paź (edition), Wrocław 2011 | [verification needed][page needed] |
Lucyna Kulińska | – | – | – | 150-200k | | "Dzieci Kresów III", Kraków 2009, p. 467 | [verification needed] |
Anna M. Cienciala | - | - | 40-60k | | | The Rebirth of Poland. University of Kansas, lecture notes by professor Anna M. Cienciala, 2004 | "During WWII, the Bandera faction of the Ukrainian Insurrectionary Army (UPA) murdered 40,000–60,000 Poles living in the villages of former Volhynia and former East Galicia." |
Pertti Ahonen et al. | | – | - | 100,000 | - | Pertti Ahonen, Gustavo Corni, Jerzy Kochanowski, Rainer Schulze, Tamás Stark, Barbara Stelzl-Marx, People on the Move: Population Transfers and Ethnic Cleansing Policies During World War II and Its Aftermath. Berg Publishers. 2008. p. 99. | "The ethnic cleansing conducted by Ukrainian nationalists, discussed in chapter 2, killed about 100,000 Poles and made refugees out of another 300,000." |
George Liber | 25–70k | 20–70k | 50–100k | – | | Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914–1954 | "Scholars in Poland, Ukraine, the United States, and Europe estimate that in 1943 and 1944 the members of the OUN-B and UPA killed between 25,000 to 70,000 Poles in Western Volhynia, and then another 20,000 to 70,000 in Eastern Galicia... between 50,000 to 100,000 Poles... died by violent means." |