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
Borszczówka
Równe pov., Volhynian voiv.
contemporary
Hoshcha rai., Rivne obl., Ukraine
general info
locality non—existent – precise location unknown
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
169
max.:
169
Perpetrators:
Germans and Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
161
max.:
161
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00154
date:
1943.02.23–1943.03.03
site
description
general info
Borszczówka
Ukrainian police pacified over a dozen Polish villages, killing about 3,000 Poles, and in the following days of March and April several more villages. After these pacifications, Ukrainian police units, fully armed, went to the forest, continuing their criminal path.
For example, on March 3, in the district of Borszczówka, Equal Germans and Ukrainian policemen murdered 160 Poles, and 104 Poles in the village of Lidawka.
Soviet partisans, such as in the case of Borszczówka and Lidawka, played an unexplained role in provoking these pacifications. Already in January 1943, a large group of Soviet partisans stopped in these villages, terrorizing the inhabitants. They did not respond to the Poles' requests to lodge in Ukrainian villages, rightly afraid of being denounced by the Ukrainians. On February 1, the Soviets left without giving any reason, in the morning of February 2, the Polish population left for the village of Hłuboczek, and soon a German punitive expedition arrived in the village. Found no one in the colony, she left. After the Poles returned to the colony, the Soviet partisans also returned in the evening. They left the village again on March 1, also without giving any reason, and on March 3, the Germans and Ukrainian policemen pacified these villages on charges of cooperation with the Soviet partisans.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siemaszko Władysław, Siemaszko Ewa, „The genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population of Volhynia 1939 - 1945”, in: Warsaw 2000, p. 679—684
source: Zalewska Zofia; in: „A call from Volhynia”, in: Lodz 1996, p. 23
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
160
min. 160
max. 160
ref. no:
00156
date:
1943.03.03
site
description
general info
Borszczówka
More than 160 Poles were murdered during the Ukrainian–German pacification.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Germans and Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
more than 160
min. 161
max. 161
ref. no:
01312
date:
1943.05–1943.06
site
description
general info
Borszczówka
The Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles, the Skałecki brothers.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
00934
date:
1943.05
site
description
general info
Borszczówka
The Ukrainians murdered 61‑year‑old Izydor Czeszejka–Sochacki, Jastrzębiec coat of arms…
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – May 1943, Spring 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
01476
date:
1943.07.02
site
description
general info
Borszczówka
The UPA massacred at least 6 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
at least 6
min. 6
max. 6
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EXPLANATIONs
- 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.
- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
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