Kortelissy
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| Кортеліси | |||
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| Oblast : | Volyn Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Ratne district | ||
| Height : | 150 m | ||
| Area : | 4.145 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,213 (2001) | ||
| Population density : | 293 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 44111 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3366 | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 51 ' N , 24 ° 26' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 0724285201 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 3 villages | ||
| Address: | 44111, Волинська обл., Ратнівський р-н, с. Кортеліси, тел. 9-41-80 | ||
| Website : | City council website | ||
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Kortelissy ( Ukrainian Кортеліси , Russian Кортелесы Kortelessy , Polish Kortelisy ) is a village in Volhynia Oblast in Ukraine with about 1200 inhabitants.
Geographical location
The village is located in the north of Ratne Rajon near the Belarusian border at an altitude of 150 m . It is located 25 km north of the Ratne district center and about 150 km north of the Lutsk Oblast center . The T-03-04 territorial road runs through the village . Kortelissy is the administrative center of the same name, 46.485 km² district council , to which the villages Sapokiwne ( Запоківне ) and Kossyzi ( Косиці ) belong.
history
Kortelissy were first mentioned in 1500 and was in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at that time . After the Realunion of 1569, the village became part of Poland-Lithuania and remained there until the third partition of Poland in 1795, when it came to the Russian state as part of West Volhynia . After the Russian Civil War and the Polish-Soviet War , the village became part of the Volyn Voivodeship within the Second Polish Republic . After the Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland in September 1939, it became part of the Ukrainian SSR within the Soviet Union until it was occupied by the Wehrmacht on June 28, 1941 at the beginning of the German-Soviet War .
In the same year, German units brought the 40 or so Jewish families living in the village to the Ratno ghetto , where they were murdered. After a few months, German units gathered all the residents in the village market square and threatened to shoot them all if they continued to support partisans. Two families were executed as a deterrent. Finally, on September 23, 1942, all the residents of the village were rounded up on the central square by German occupation forces and Ukrainian collaborators. 2,875 people, including 1,620 children, died in the mass shooting. Then 715 houses were burned down. The reason for the massacre was that a smaller Soviet partisan squad was active nearby , which previously killed a German soldier and some local police forces. The village remained uninhabited until it was liberated by the Red Army on June 18, 1944.
After the war the village was rebuilt and again came under the Ukrainian SSR. In 1980 a small historical museum was opened in Kortelissy with a permanent exhibition dedicated to the massacre. In 1981 the Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Jaworiwskyj wrote the book "The Eternal Kortelissy" ( Вічні Кортеліси ), for which he received the state Taras Shevchenko Prize . After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the village became part of the now independent Ukraine.
literature
- Яворівський В. О. Вічні Кортеліси: Повість. - К .: Молодь, 1981. - 149 с.
Web links
- Cortelisy . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 15 , part 2: Januszpol – Wola Justowska . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1902, p. 129 (Polish, edu.pl ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Local website on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada ; accessed on May 8, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ^ Website of the district council on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada; accessed on May 8, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b Local history of Kortelissy in the history of the cities and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on May 8, 2020 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b The Kortelisy massacre on holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com of May 30, 2013; accessed on May 8, 2020
- ↑ Ivan Katchanovski. Terrorists or National Heroes? Politics of the OUN and the UPA in Ukraine
- ↑ Трагічний слід нацистських злочинців на Ратнівщині