Battle at Kuryłówka
Battle at Kuryłówka
Part of: Second World War
| date | May 7, 1945 |
|---|---|
| place | Kuryłówka near Leżajsk |
| output | Victory of the Polish underground units |
| Parties to the conflict | |
|---|---|
| Commander | |
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Major Franciszek Przysiężniak |
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| Troop strength | |
| 200 men from the National Military Association | 300 men of the NKVD |
| losses | |
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Unknown |
56–70 dead |
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The battle near Kuryłówka took place on May 7, 1945 near the village of Kuryłówka in today's Polish Subcarpathian Voivodeship .
In early May, units of the anti-communist National Military Association (NZW) were stationed in the village of Kuryłówka. Units of the Soviet NKVD stationed in the town of Biłgoraj attacked the NZW on May 7th. 56 to 70 NKVD members died in the battle, the losses of the Polish units are unknown. After the battle, the NZW withdrew from the village. The next day, new Soviet units occupied the village, burned it down completely and shot 9 residents. 920 inhabitants of the village were left homeless.
literature
- Wystawa Żołnierze wyklęci. Antykomunistyczne podziemie na Rzeszowszczyźnie po 1944 roku.
- Dionizy Garbacz: Żołnierze Wołyniaka. Stalowa Wola 1999.
- Dariusz Iwaneczko, Zbigniew Nawrocki: Rok pierwszy. Powstanie i działalność aparatu Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego na Rzeszowszczyźnie (sierpień 1944 - lipiec 1945). Rzeszów 2005.
- Norman Davies: No Simple Victory. Viking Penguin 2006.