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Roman Catholic parish
St Sigismund
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese
Poland

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    St Sigismund church, Słomczyn
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    St Sigismund church, Słomczyn
    source: own resources
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    XIX century, feretry
    St Sigismund church, Słomczyn
    source: own resources
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GENOCIDIUM ATROX

GENOCIDE perpetrated by UKRAINIANS on POLES

Data for 1943–1947

Site

II Republic of Poland

Bołszowce

Rohatyn pov., Stanisławów voiv.

contemporary

Bil'shivtsi

Halych rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine

Murders

Perpetrators:

Ukrainians

Victims:

Poles

Number of victims:

min.:

98

max.:

112

Location

link to GOOGLE MAPS

events (incidents)

ref. no:

03519

date:

1943.10

site

description

general info

Bołszowce

The Banderites murdered 16 Polish families, i.e. 70 Poles, using axes and knives. They also called the parish vicar, Carmelite Bartłomiej Czosnek, from the rectory, under the guise of treating the sick. They brutally tortured him: they cut out his tongue, his genitals, and cut his body to pieces.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – October 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 382

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

71

min. 71

max. 71

ref. no:

05715

date:

1943.12–1944.03

(winter)

site

description

general info

Bołszowce

The Banderites murdered the Carmelite vicar, Father Wojciech Zajączkowski / Zając /, tore his tongue and genitals out, and chopped his body into small pieces. They also murdered an undetermined number of Poles. „  […] lured out of the monastery in the winter of 1943 under the guise of helping the sick and murdered by members of the genocidal Ukrainian organization OUN / UPA. After a few days, the body was found, chopped into pieces”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: GTKRK, „Fr Bogusz Grzegorz”; in: portal: «The White Book». Martyrology of the clergy - Poland. XX century (1914-1989), St Sigismund parish in Słomczyn — web page: www.swzygmunt.knc.pl [accessible: 2020.02.01]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

unknown

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

05112

date:

1944.02.23

site

description

general info

Bołszowce

The Ukrainians murdered 1 Polish woman. „23.II.44 Bolszowce Adamka Maria murdered”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „1944. February - March - Lists of murders and attacks on the Polish population drawn up in the RGO in Lviv on the basis of reports from the area”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/2, p. 219—253

On February 23, 1944, Adamowski Marian was murdered in Bołszów.

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

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

2

min. 2

max. 2

ref. no:

05189

date:

1944.02.29

site

description

general info

Bołszowce

The UPA murdered 19 Poles, including a young girl. „In Bołszowce [Rohatyn] 29.II. 14 people were murdered. In addition, 5 people were kidnapped, including: the head of the commune, the secretary and the bride. Their bodies were found brutally murdered, with cut off limbs and” ears.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „1944, March - Report on the wave of Ukrainian murders that engulfed the Galicia District from mid-February 1944”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/2, p. 121—123

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

19

min. 19

max. 19

ref. no:

05619

date:

1944.03.13

site

description

general info

Bołszowce

13.III.1944 Bołszowce county Rohatyn Fr Garlic murdered.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „1944, July 17 - Letter from PolKO in Stanisławów to the Director of RGO in Kraków containing a personal list of people abducted and murdered from the beginning of the attacks, from September 1943 to July 15, 1944”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 349—373

After the German and Russian invasions of Poland in 09.1939 and the beginning of World War II, during the genocide committed by the Ukrainians, called „in Volhynia,”, he organized the evacuation of the monastery in Bołszowce, including his guardian and parish priest, Fr Jan Zając, together with about 200 parishioners who took refuge in the monastery from the genocidal attacks of the OUN / UPA – with the help of Hungarian troops cooperating with Germany – to Stanisławów, and further to Lviv and Kraków. A miraculous painting of Our Lady of Bołszowiec was also saved. He stayed in Bołszowce, guarding the church and the altar against desecration. Kidnapped in broad daylight by the genocidal Ukrainian organization OUN / UPA – triggered under the guise of treating the patient. Tortured – his tongue was torn out, his genitals were cut off and his body was chopped into pieces.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: GTKRK, „Fr Czosnek Bartłomiej) Piotr”; in: portal: «The White Book». Martyrology of the clergy - Poland. XX century (1914-1989), St Sigismund parish in Słomczyn — web page: www.swzygmunt.knc.pl [accessible: 2020.02.01]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

1

min. 1

max. 1

ref. no:

08202

date:

1944.10.27

site

description

general info

Bołszowce

The Banderites murdered several Poles and several Soviet officials.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

few + few

min. 4

max. 18

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EXPLANATIONs

  1. 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.
  2. The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
  3. English contemporary name of the site — in accordance with naming conventions used in Google Maps.
  4. Contemporary regional info about the site — if in Ukraine than in accordance to administrative structure of Ukraine valid till 2020.
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  6. Assumptions as to the number of victims ⇒ click HERE.