Pawłokoma

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Pawłokoma is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dynów, within Rzeszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 5 km south-east of Dynów and 32 km south-east of the regional capital Rzeszów. It is also 35 km west of Przemyśl.

History

In the late stages of the Volyn tragedy, in March 1945, 365 Ukrainian, and a few Polish, inhabitants of the village were murdered by a former Armia Krajowa unit, commanded by Józef Biss "Wacław". A monument to commemorate the Ukrainian victims of the Pawłokoma massacre was erected in 2005.

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