Roman Catholic parish
St Sigismund
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese
Poland
GENOCIDE perpetrated by UKRAINIANS on POLES
Data for 1943–1947
Site
II Republic of Poland
Beata
Włodzimierz Wołyński pov., Volhynian voiv.
contemporary
Beheta
Volodymyr-Volynskyi rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
22
max.:
27
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
01442
date:
1943.06
site
description
general info
„At the end of June 1943, the sisters Sabinka and Helenka Nowaczyński came to our house, they were very scared. They immediately began to tell how the Ukrainians came to their house on the last Saturday night and under duress they took their daddy from the house, who was then brutally murdered and his body abandoned in the forest. They found the body of a massacred father, he was beaten, his tongue cut off and his eyes gouged out, and finally they killed him with a shot to the back of the head. There were signs that he was crawling a little more, then he gave up the ghost. Immediately his brother Jan Nowaczyński, around 26, went to the indicated place and brought the body home. But me and my brother Leonarko, we washed them carefully and put them on for the last journey, and on Monday Fr Francis blessed the coffin in front of the Church. The funeral itself took place in the cemetery, but even there, Poles did not feel at ease anymore […] I also suppose that the Ukrainians murdered Wila and his family on the same night as Władek Nowaczyński. It was a very rich Polish family who lived just outside the forest in the Ukrainian village of Beheta. I learned about their tragedy from our family in Teresin”…
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Roch Sławomir Tomasz, „Recollections of Janina Topolanek née Rusiecka from the Teresin colony in Włodzimierz Wołyński county”; in: portal: Volhynia, in: Glasgow, Scotland, March 25, 2011 — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2022.04.06]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1 family + 1
min. 5
max. 7
ref. no:
03031
date:
1943.09.15
site
description
general info
Beata
The UPA and local The Ukrainians murdered about 20 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
c. 20
min. 20
max. 20
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EXPLANATIONs
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