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
Berestek
Zaleszczyki pov., Tarnopol voiv.
contemporary
Berestok
Zalishchyky rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
3
max.:
4
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00150
date:
1943.03.01
site
description
general info
On March 1, 1943 in the village of Torskie, county Zaleszczyki, a Ukrainian policeman, shot a Pole; „on March 1, 1943 the Ukrainian police murdered Kordiatiuk Bolesław, a student of the Jagiellonian University”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Komański and Siekierka for the Tarnopol province (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2015, vol. 7
Others: March 4, 1943 in the village of Beresk, county Bolesław Kondratiuk, 19, was shot by the Ukrainian police while he was performing his duties as a tobacco instructor.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
The village of Torskie is adjacent to the village of Berestek. In the area of Borsszczów was not the village of Beresk.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: GTKRK – own archives
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
08035
date:
1944.09
site
description
general info
Berestek
The Banderites murdered 3 Poles; Seeing the burning buildings, the Soviet soldiers shot at the village and the Bandera followers fled.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
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EXPLANATIONs
- Lack of info about the perpetrators in the description of a given event (Incident) indicates that the blame should be attributed to the perpetrators listed in general info section.
- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
- English contemporary name of the site — in accordance with naming conventions used in Google Maps.
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