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.:
2
max.:
2
Perpetrators:
Germans and Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
20
max.:
46
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04176
date:
1943
site
description
general info
Byteń
The Ukrainians murdered Antoni Kowalski.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 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:
00223
date:
1943.03.18
site
description
general info
Byteń
At least 20 Poles were killed in the Ukrainian–German pacification. Others: „On March 18 and 19, in the manors, villages and settlements of the Hołoby commune, county Kovel, the German military police from Kowel together with the Ukrainian police carried out a «purge of» among Poles, murdering 206 people, including children and women. In individual towns the following people were murdered: Byteń – 46 people, Chobut – 10 people, Wielick – 45 people, Gońnybród – 13 people, Porsk Duży – 12 people”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. dr hab. Filar Władysław, „Volhynia in 1939-1944”; in: Wolak Tadeusz (ed.), „Before the Operation Vistula, there was Wołyń”, World Association of Home Army AK Soldiers, in: Warsaw, 1997
perpetrators
Germans and Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
at least 20 – 46
min. 20
max. 46
ref. no:
02766
date:
1943.08
site
description
general info
Byteń
Hryhoryj Suprenovych, a 20‑year‑old Ukrainian, shot Antoni Jędro, 54.
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]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
LETTER to CUSTODIAN/ADMINISTRATOR
The authors of this study kindly ask its readers to note that any correspondence sent to the Genocidium Atrox portal — to the address given below — may be published — in verbatim or its parts, including the signature — unless it contains relevant explicite stipulations. Email address will not be published.
If you have an Email client on your communicator/computer — such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Windows Mail or Microsoft Outlook, described at Wikipedia, among others — try the link below, please:
LETTER to CUSTODIAN/ADMINISTRATOR
If however you do not run such a client or the above link is not active please send an email to the Custodian/Administrator using your account — in your customary email/correspondence engine — at the following address:
stating the following as the subject:
GENOCIDIUM ATROX: BYTEŃ
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.
- English contemporary name of the site — in accordance with naming conventions used in Google Maps.
- Contemporary regional info about the site — if in Ukraine than in accordance to administrative structure of Ukraine valid till 2020.
- General explanations ⇒ click HERE.
- Assumptions as to the number of victims ⇒ click HERE.