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
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
168
max.:
168
events (incidents)
ref. no:
05249
date:
1944.02
site
description
general info
Boków
The Ukrainians murdered at least 56 Poles.
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:
at least 56
min. 56
max. 56
ref. no:
04974
date:
1944.02.10–1944.02.11
site
description
general info
Boków
Bandera followers robbed and burned down Polish farms and murdered 72 Poles.
„On Friday, February 11, 1944, at 10 p.m., The Ukrainians attacked the village of Boków, the rural commune of Bożyków, Podhajecki county. They came on sledges from the surrounding villages and started raiding Polish houses, leaving the Ukrainians alone. The attackers saved their ammunition, using it only in exceptional cases, and murdered Poles with axes and agricultural tools. The terrorists killed 24 people, two children and one seriously injured man. Szymkowicz Bronisław, around 45, a farmer by profession, a former Polish mayor, was cut off by the Ukrainians and took it with them. Many other Poles, such as Rzędzianowski Jan, 21, a farmer by profession, former shooter, and Pilecki Ludwik, 40, a farmer by profession, suffered the same fate. On the same day, The Ukrainians also murdered eight children aged 2–10 and about 13 women, including several pregnant women. After committing their crime, the Ukrainians began to plunder the property of the murdered, and even took off the shoes and clothes of the dead. At two o'clock in the morning, the murderers departed towards Szumlan in the Podhajecki district.
The surnames of the murdered are: Pilecki Ludwik, 40; Szymkowicz Karol, 50; Cywiński Adam, 38; Pielewski Władysław, 41; Żydzianowski Jan, age 21; Zacharko Wiktor, age 36; Szymkowicz Bronisław, 48; Pilecki Michał, age 15; Pilecka Janina, age 12; 10. Kazimierz Pilichowski, age 10; Three daughters of Cywiński Adam: Maria, age 14, Janina, age 9, Laurenta, age 5; Żędzianowska Antonina aged 56; Zacharko Eugenia, 37; Szymkowicz Marcela, 41; Szymkowicz Sabina, 43; Kułaczkowska Karolina, 49; Cywińska Anna, 35; Wake Czesław, 23; Budz Ryszard, age 3; Szymkowicz Krystyna, 19 years old; Pielichowska Emilia, 40. Injured: Pilecka Wanda, 38; Zacharko Lusia, age 8; Kułaczkowski Kazimierz, age 54; Pilichowski Jan, age 6. In addition, Pilichowska Emilia, age 40, died of wounds received”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, February 24 - Protocol written in PolKO in Brzeżany on the robbery (combined with the murders). Ukrainians to the village of Boków in the Podhajecki poviat. Protocol written with Mr. Pilecki Adam, 21 years old, a carpenter by profession, from Bokowo, Bożyków commune, Podhajecki poviat. Brzeżany, February 24, 1944”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/1, p. 145—146
The list of 66 Poles (Komański., pp. 254–255) is supplemented by prof. Jankiewicz: „During the first raid on February 10, 1944, Jan, 6, Pilichowski, four brothers Gutowie and Krupa Jan, 28”, were murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; 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
source: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 254—255
From 10/11 February in the village of Boków, county Pidhaitsi Banderites murdered 60 Poles. The following died: Bolinowski Kornel and Wiktor, Cewiński Joachim, Justyn and his daughter Antonina, Cewńiski Adam and 3 daughters, Chodyniecki Antoni and Sabina (née Pilecki), Ferenc Aniela, Haladewicz Stanisław, Jakubowski Franciszek, Jurkowski Jan and son Józef, Kasper Genowefa (with Pileckich), Kułaczkowska Karolina, Pilecki Ludwik, his children Michał and Janina, Pilecki Ignacy and his son, Pilecki Kazimierz, Pilecki Antoni with his wife, Pilecki Jan, Pilecki N. (p. Aleksandra), Pondel N. and his wife, Pondel Józefa, Rozumek N. and his son Władysław, Skulski Ludwik his wife Zofia and son, Skulski Walery, Sumisławska Maria and Stanisław, Szymkowicz Bronisław and his wife Sabina (née Pilecki), Szymkowicz Karol, his wife Marcela and daughter Krystyna and married daughter Czesław and her son Ryszard, Szymkowicz Ludwik, Franciszek Świderski. Zacharko Pantelemon, Wiktor and his wife Genowefa, Zatorski Jan, his wife Kornela and son, (R) Żędzianowski N. and his son Jan.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
The following cases of murders and robberies have recently taken place: on February 4, 1944, an attack on Buków [Podhajce].
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
23 people killed and 4 injured were named. Most of these victims are mentioned by Komański and Siekierka on pp. 254–255, describing the attack on the village of Boków, county Pidhaitsi on the night of February 10–11, 1944 (they do not mention Czesława and Ryszard Buga). Buków village is not mentioned. Probably the information received by the Polish Welfare Committee in Stanisławów was inaccurate. And: in the village of Boków, county Pidhaitsi „The Ukrainians murdered 23 Poles. Children had their arms and legs cut off”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Central Archives of Modern Records, in: AK, ref. No. 203 /XV/15, sh. 122
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
72
min. 72
max. 72
ref. no:
06328
date:
1944.04.09
site
description
general info
Boków
Easter Sunday – „During the second OUN–UPA raid on Easter 1944, about 40 Poles of NN” were murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; 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
Myrosław Onyszkewycz „Orest Karat” gave the order: „I order you to purge your area immediately from the Polish element and Ukrainian–Bolshevik agents. The purge should be carried out in riverside hostels sparsely populated by Poles. To this end, create a militia near the area, composed of our members, whose task would be to eliminate the above–mentioned. Our larger hostels will be cleared of this element by our military units even in broad daylight […] The clearing of the area must be completed before our Easter so that we can celebrate it without Poles. Remember that when the Bolsheviks find us with Poles in our territory, they will slaughter us all […] Make a hard, ruthless fight with them. Not to spare anyone, even in mixed marriages. To take Lachs out of their houses, but The Ukrainians and children in these houses should not be liquidated […] Get the gun. Death to the Poles. Stop, April 6, 1944. Glory to the heroes! Orest, Karat” This order is in the files of the investigation against Myroslav Onyshhevych.
source: Miszko Przemysław, Matkowski Krzysztof, „Crimes of genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists in Eastern Lesser Poland in 1939—1945 against persons of Polish nationality - in the light of investigations by OKŚZPNP in Wrocław”; in: „Crimes of the past, studies and materials of IPN prosecutors”, in: Warszawa 2008, vol. 2 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
40
min. 40
max. 40
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