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
Błyszczanka
Zaleszczyki pov., Tarnopol voiv.
contemporary
Blyshchanka
Zalishchyky rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
69
max.:
75
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
08748
date:
1944.12
site
description
general info
Błyszczanka
The Ukrainians murdered 6 Poles, including the 5–person Ziółkowski family.
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:
6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
09248
date:
1945.01.15–1945.01.16
site
description
general info
Błyszczanka
The Banderites with local Ukrainians, going from house to house, murdered Poles with axes, knives and bayonets so as not to wake others up with their arrows. 61 Poles and 1 Ukrainian woman died this way. Ksawery Wojtowicz with his wife and 6 children hammered with axes, 45‑year‑old Jan Smoliński had a stake in the ear. Another beaten one was thrown into a well; most of the victims were women, children and the elderly. W. Kubów reports that the UPA gang murdered 67 Poles. The following died: Baraniecka Aleksandra, 38, Karol 17, Danuta 9, Paulina 12, Władysław 11, Olga 30, Stefania 18, two 4–person Jakubiszyn families, Jakubiszyn Antoni 55, his wife Anna aged 50, son Kazimierz aged 14, daughter Aniela aged 12, Kosiorowska Anna and her three children, Kuchta Adam aged 40, Alicja aged 30, Kazimierz aged 12, Bronisława aged 30 Langer N 38 (Ukrainian), Mieńka N. 40.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
Grzegorz Hryciek lists 68 victims.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Hryciuk Grzegorz, „UPA actions against Poles after the re-occupation of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Red Army in 1944”; in: Libionka Dariusz, Motyka Grzegorz (ed.), „Anti-Polish operation of the OUN-UPA 1943-1944. Facts and interpretations”, State Archive of Lviv Oblast, in: DALO, 5001/2/32, Warsaw 2002, sh. 74
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
62 – 68
min. 62
max. 68
ref. no:
09261
date:
1945.01.19
site
description
general info
Błyszczanka
The Ukrainians murdered 18‑year‑old Stefania Baraniecka, who survived the slaughter on the night of January 15–16 and came home from Zaleszczyki to get food.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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