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.:
29
max.:
53
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
07165
date:
1944.04–1944.05
site
description
general info
Chrusno Stare
At the end of April or the beginning of May 1944, the UPA murdered 24 Poles whose Ukrainian neighbors guaranteed their safety, so they did not leave the village, including 3 families and a teacher, a Ukrainian wife, and a Ukrainian family of 6 for helping Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
24
min. 24
max. 24
ref. no:
06247
date:
1944.04.03
site
description
general info
Chrusno Stare
The Ukrainians murdered 5 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Central Archives of Modern Records, in: DR, ref. No. 202 /III/ 121, sh. 267—290
Our delegation in Siemianówka informs us that on the night of April 3–4 this year. a group of individuals speaking Ukrainian murdered the following 5 people in the village of Chrusno Stare:
Karol Czajka – a minor farmer, 39
Piotr Majewski – farmer, approx. 37 years old
Paweł Majewski – farmer, around 30 years old
Wanda Filipkowicz – former teacher, about 35 years old
Zofia Bielińska – a cook.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, April 14 - Letter from PolKO Lwów-district to the RGO Delegate in Lviv regarding the murders of the Polish population in the district”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 249
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
06311
date:
1944.04.08
site
description
general info
Chrusno Stare
[The Ukrainians] murdered 5 Poles. „On Easter Saturday, April 8, 1944, in Chruśno Stary, Piotr and Paweł Majewski, teacher Wanda Filipowicz with her maid, and Karol Czajka were murdered. Kazimierz Sroka, Piotr Majewski and Jan, the father and brother of the murdered, avoided death. Jan escaped to Siemianówka in his underwear, from where a few carts left carrying the property of the above—mentioned and the Łabaziewicz family. Piotr's wife stayed with the Majewski family for two more weeks, trusting the guarantee of their Ukrainian neighbor Vasyl Kuzio”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: web page: www.znaczacy.com [accessible: 2021.04.11]
Siekierka et al. […] state that Wanda Filipowicz was 35 years old and that a young girl, Zofia Bilińska, was killed.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 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. 616
In April–May, 18 more Poles and a 6–person Ukrainian family of Uhryn for helping Poles were murdered. „In Chruśno Stary, despite the assurances of their Ukrainian neighbors that they were safe, Anastazja, Kazimierz and Józef Bednarscy, Anastazja and Franciszka Wojciechowski, Jan Głowaczewski, Antoni Szachnowski, Józef Zatorski with their son and daughter, the Żółkiewicz family from the hamlet of Derewacz died. The Ukrainians favoring Poles were not spared. Such was a certain Uhryn, who was murdered by their Ukrainian brothers who killed his wife Anna, sons Stanisław and Roman and daughters Helena and Krystyna. Piotr Boruta, Pelagia Dzika and a young boy with an unknown name” also died.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: web page: www.znaczacy.com [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
0 – 24
max. 24
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