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
Bezejów
Sokal pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Bezejów
Sokal rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
general info
locality abandoned
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
20
max.:
20
events (incidents)
ref. no:
08890
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Bezejów
The Ukrainians murdered 7 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
7
min. 7
max. 7
ref. no:
07749
date:
1944.08.08
site
description
general info
Bezejów
The Ukrainians murdered 13 people from three Ćwinarowicz families who returned to their homes in Zabrze. They were: Józefa (30 years old) with her daughters: Helena (8 years old) and Wanda (2 months old); Bronisława (15), her brother Antoni (12), Zuzanna (37), her daughter Janina Danuta (8) and Ryszarda (2), Irena (43), her son Julian (6) and daughter Anna (1 year old), Anna (47 years old) and Władysław (37 years old). So: 1 man, 4 women and 8 children. „Ditch started. After digging about 50 centimeters, a human hand was exposed to the top. The corpses of all the dead were excavated. My mother was shot in the head, and Ryszard's two‑year‑old sister had an exit wound in the back of her head after a shot in the temple. The third victim recovered from the death pit was sister Janina Danuta with a deep wound cut in her temple with an ax. Aunt Irena was hit in the head, Bronisława, d/o Józefa, she had several bullet wounds. Her legs were tied with a rope made of rye. I remember how she ran away and was shot, and from the place of death she was dragged there by the legs. Antoni, s/o aunt Józefa, and Juliusz, s/o aunt Irena, had their heads shattered from the impact of an ax. Aunt Irena's little daughter Ania was shot in the head. Józef's aunt, the first victim of the murder, had her head smashed as a result of being hit with an ax and her throat was cut, I saw this murder by the lame Bandera. Aunt Helena had two deep wounds cut with an ax on her head, and two–month–old Wanda had no wounds on her. Perhaps she was buried alive, or strangled with her mother's body, when she fell from an ax blow inflicted by Banderite «Czortka». The twelfth victim was Uncle Władysław, shot during an escape on horseback on the edge of the eastern part of the village. His body was not found. The body of the thirteenth victim of Anna Ćwinarowicz, my father's sister, who was arrested in the center of the village, was also not found”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Ćwinarowicz Bolesław, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 1042—1047
After the murder, the Soviets investigated and identified 9 perpetrators of the murder, but they were in hiding. „Only in August 1991, when I went to Sokal and there I reported the murder of my family to the deputy commander of the Security Service, Capt. Oleg Baran, he established that the documents from these interrogations are in the archives in Lviv. My efforts to bring the murderers still alive were to no avail. While in 1991 in Sokal, I accidentally met the murderer of my family – a lame Ukrainian, nom–de–guerre «Czortek». He came from the town of Czortków, he lived in the village of Żwirki near Sokal. I also established that Grzegorz Nakonieczny, another murderer of my family, and his sister Katarzyna, a partner in the murder, lived in the Sokal county […] I also established that Grzegorz Nakonieczny, another murderer of my family, and his sister Katarzyna, a participant in the murder, lived in the Sokal county […] It turned out that none of the murderers was punished for the crime committed against 13 people from the Ćwinarowiczow family, despite the fact that the investigation in this case and the related documents were at the disposal of Soviet Ukraine ”. .
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Ćwinarowicz Bolesław, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 1047
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
13
min. 13
max. 13
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