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
Chobut
Kowel pov., Volhynian voiv.
contemporary
Kovel rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
general info
locality non—existent
Murders
Perpetrators:
Germans and Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
8
max.:
10
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00224
date:
1943.03.18
site
description
general info
Chobut
At the Ukrainian–German pacification, at least 8 Poles were killed. In the cemeteries in the villages of Chobut and Hołoby there are graves of about 45 victims of the pacification of the villages of Byteń and Chobut.
Elsewhere: „On March 18 and 19 in the manors, villages and settlements of the Hołoby commune, district 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, Gończybród – 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:
8 – 10
min. 8
max. 10
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EXPLANATIONs
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- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
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