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
Bołszowce
Rohatyn pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Halych rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
98
max.:
112
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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