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
Burakówka
Zaleszczyki pov., Tarnopol voiv.
contemporary
Buryakivka
Zalishchyky rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
44
max.:
45
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00835
date:
1943.05.16
site
description
general info
Burakówka
The Ukrainians beat the 19‑year‑old Piotr Sobczak to death.
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:
00936
date:
1943.05
site
description
general info
Burakówka
Sobczak Piotr was murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – May 1943, Spring 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
02420
date:
1943.08.02
site
description
general info
Burakówka
[The Ukrainians] abducted a Pole, a forester, who was returning home, and no trace of him was found. Others: the Banderites murdered 5 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „The 75th anniversary of the genocide – August and the summer of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5 – 6
min. 5
max. 6
ref. no:
02935
date:
1943.09.01
site
description
general info
Burakówka
On September 1, 1943 a UPA militia attacked the house of a Polish–Ukrainian family and murdered the Ukrainian husband, the son was wounded but survived, the Polish mother escaped.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; 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
In the district of Julianów Kovel The Ukrainians murdered 3 Poles: the married couple Ignacy Kucha, 66, with his wife Jadwiga, 64, and Cecylia Kucha, 36.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 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:
04960
date:
1944.02.09–1944.02.10
site
description
general info
Burakówka
(in the vicinity)
The Ukrainians kidnapped a Pole, a former student of the Jagiellonian University, whose body was found with his eyes gouged out, his ears and tongue cut off, his arms and legs broken. Others: In the village of Burakówka, county Zaleszczyki „On February 10, 1944 Frankel Czesław, a student of the Jagiellonian University, was tortured and 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
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
07870
date:
1944.08
site
description
general info
Burakówka
The Ukrainians murdered 4 Poles, men.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
08040
date:
1944.09
site
description
general info
Burakówka
[The Ukrainians] murdered 4 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
08754
date:
1944.12
site
description
general info
Burakówka
The Ukrainians murdered 18 Poles from 5 families.
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:
18
min. 18
max. 18
ref. no:
09916
date:
1945.05.02
site
description
general info
Burakówka
„Ukrainian rebels” murdered 8 Polish women, Ukrainian wives. One of the Polish husbands, a Ukrainian, defended his wife, asked for his wife to be killed and he was also killed.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 1158
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
9
min. 9
max. 9
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