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
Cepuchy
Lwów miasto pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Kamianka-Buzka rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
general info
locality non—existent
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
32
max.:
32
events (incidents)
ref. no:
05152
date:
1944.02.27
site
description
general info
Cepuchy
(Near Jaryczów): „In the village of Cepuchy [district Lviv] killed 7” people.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, March - Lists of murdered people and attacks on villages and estates in the Lviv district”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/1, p. 97
At dawn, Edward Cepuch (20), the brother of the witness Irena Ratuszna née Cepuch, was abducted from the road to the railway station in Połonice. As every day, his friend came for him – a Ukrainian, Nykola Barabashin. But this time „friend” led him to SYLWEN's house, which was in the forest, where bandits from nearby Podliszki, Hryniów and Połonice were waiting. During the day, other inhabitants of the settlement were brought there, detained on their way to the station. They were Michał Staszyński (36), Janina Cepuch (28), Zdzisław Wróblewski (14), Wacław Cisiński, a married couple of French settlers. They were held until evening, when they were led out of the farmyard and into the forest. The boy was shot immediately, the others had to dig pits, they were ordered to strip naked and shots were fired at them. The lying people were killed with jags and pushed to prepared pits. Settlement residents had heard the shots but were not aware of what they meant. Seven people were murdered: five Poles and two French settlers.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Ratuszna Irena nee Cepuch; in: portal: stankiewicze.com — web page: www.stankiewicze.com [accessible: 2010.01.01]
Siekierka et al. […] noted: „In February 1944, 7 people NN” were murdered by the Banderites in the hamlet of Cepuchy.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; 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. 615
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
7
min. 7
max. 7
ref. no:
05153
date:
1944.02.27
site
description
general info
Cepuchy
I am the d/o Wacław Cisiński, murdered by UPA gangs. He was killed by the Banderites during the pogrom near the village of Cepuchy […] I would like to add that my father was born on October 10, 1914, so on the day of his death he was almost 30 years old, he was a resident of Jaryczów and worked as an official in the forest inspectorate in Lviv. Unfortunately, his name and surname were not included in the list of those killed in the Borderlands.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Meryk Czesława nee Cisińska
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
05169
date:
1944.02.28
site
description
general info
Cepuchy
(Near Jaryczów): „February 28, 1944 to the Cepuchy settlement, district The Bandera followers came in Lviv at three in the morning. They were surprised by the absence of men. They did not think anyone would have warned them. They went from house to house chasing people to one place, to the brick house of Michał Cepuch, my father. They waited for the return of the men to the 15th, robbing abandoned houses […] They were saved from extermination by two brothers Zbyszek and Józek Mrozowski (then 12–13 year old boys), who were the only ones hiding with their parents in the basement of their house. When the Bandera followers set the village on fire, wrapped in white sheets (there was snow outside) they made their way into the forest and, despite the shots fired behind them, they reached the Gestapo in Jaryczów. The police station was notified. And when frightened women and children, crowded in the surviving house of Michał Cepuch, they waited for their end, they heard shots from machine guns. This time it was the Germans who came to the rescue of”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Ratuszna Irena nee Cepuch
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
ref. no:
05191
date:
1944.02.29
site
description
general info
Cepuchy
The Ukrainians murdered 1 Pole.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. Sowa Andrzej Leon, „Polish-Ukrainian relations 1939-1947”; in: Society of History Supporters, in: Krakow 1998, p. 234
CEPUCHY (Cypuchy) near Pełtwa On February 29, 1944, the OUN militia murdered 24 Poles, incl. at an unknown time he was murdered 1–2. Cepuch Edward with his sister Janina; 3. Cepuch [FNU]; 4. Starzyński [FNU].
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:
24
min. 24
max. 24
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