Wierzchowiny, Krasnystaw County


Wierzchowiny is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Siennica Różana, within Krasnystaw County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.
In June 1945, a Polish National Armed Forces unit commanded by Mieczysław Pazderski murdered nearly 200 Ukrainian inhabitants of the village.

World War II

Wierzchowiny was the location of a massacre carried out on 6 June 1945 in which approximately 50–196 inhabitants of the village were killed in what remains an aura of considerable controversy.