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
Bednarów
Stanisławów pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Bodnariv
Kalush rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
657
max.:
707
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04045
date:
1943.12
site
description
general info
Bednarów
The Banderites robbed Polish farms and kidnapped 3 Poles who had disappeared without a trace.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
05244
date:
1944.02
site
description
general info
Bednarów
The UPA slaughtered 150–200 Poles, burned many families alive, burned down the presbytery and parish church. „Michał Łucki – crucified in the square, and then burned alive with his wife in the” building.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Jastrzębski Stanisław, „The genocide of the Polish population by the OUN-UPA in the province stanisławowski in 1939-1945”, in: Warsaw 2004, p. 68
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
150 – 200
min. 150
max. 200
ref. no:
04943
date:
1944.02.08
site
description
general info
Bednarów
The Banderites kidnapped 4 Poles, including Fr Michał Kucaba, who was shot on the road, the rest of them disappeared without a trace. „On February 4, 1944, Father Michał Kucaba, 44, is murdered in Bednarów [Stanisławów] and his cousin Ewa Dellman” was wounded.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, February 26 - Pol. KO Stanisławów to the RGO in Krakow and Lviv. It contains a description of the situation of Polish refugees from attacked villages and lists of murders and robberies”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 295—302
Others: Fr Michał Kucab, 44, administrator of the Bednarów parish in the Stanisławów county (Lviv archdiocese, Stanisławów deanery), February 9, 1944; tricked into the road; by Ukrainian nationalists and shot.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
05536
date:
1944.03.07–1944.03.08
site
description
general info
Bednarów
The UPA robbed and burned Polish farms, the parish church and the presbytery, and murdered 250 Poles, and 14 wounded survived.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
250
min. 250
max. 250
ref. no:
05633
date:
1944.03.13–1944.03.14
site
description
general info
Bednarów
The Banderites robbed and burned Polish farms and murdered 250 Poles, and 14 of the wounded survived. Probably the first attack took place on the night of March 7–8, and 39 Poles were killed then.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Situation report from the Polish lands, no. 15/44”; in: The Polish Institute and the Gen. Sikorski in London, in: no: PRM — 122
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
250
min. 250
max. 250
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