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
Cieszanów
Lubaczów pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Lubaczów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
121
max.:
121
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04192
date:
1943
site
description
general info
Cieszanów
Fr Stanisław Gustkowicz, administrator of the branch church of the Cieszanów parish in Lubaczów county, Lviv voivodeship, arrested in 1943 by the Ukrainian police on suspicion of belonging to a secret Polish organization, imprisoned in Lviv and Oświęcim, where he died under unknown circumstances.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siemaszko Ewa, „Catholic priests murdered in 1939—1946 by the Ukrainian nationalists (OUN thugs, UPA thugs/ Banderites, Ukrainian policemen and Ukrainians serving in SS-Galizien division) on the territories of pre-war Volhynia, Lviv, Stanislaviv, Ternopil, Polesya and Lublin voivodships”; in: „Recollections of those who survived”, portal: Volhynia of our forebearers — web page: www.nawolyniu.pl [accessible: 2020.02.01]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
05206
date:
1944.02
site
description
general info
Cieszanów
The Ukrainians murdered Franciszek Rozmus.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1945”; 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:
06597
date:
1944.04.28–1944.04.29
site
description
general info
Cieszanów
The UPA massacred 50 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Węgierski Jerzy Julian; in: „WiN Historical Journals”, in: No. 9/1996
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
50
min. 50
max. 50
ref. no:
06602
date:
1944.04.29
site
description
general info
Cieszanów
The Ukrainians murdered Jan Perzyło.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; 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:
06619
date:
1944.04.30
site
description
general info
Cieszanów
The Ukrainians murdered 3 Poles, including a married couple.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
06961
date:
1944.05.02
site
description
general info
Cieszanów
The Ukrainians murdered Tomasz Gieras.
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
06970
date:
1944.05.03
site
description
general info
Cieszanów
The UPA from „Zaliźniak” robbed and burned 1,200 buildings and murdered 48 Poles who did not leave their farms, and 1 Ukrainian.
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:
49
min. 49
max. 49
ref. no:
06977
date:
1944.05.04
site
description
general info
Cieszanów
The UPA murdered one Pole. „4.5.44 sotnya «Mestnyky» together with the district militia conducted an action on the town of Cieszanów, the majority of which are Poles. Before that, they shot local The Ukrainians (for example, the attack on Dr. Babjak – a lawyer from Cieszanów). Cieszanów was burnt”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „The report of the Ukrainian underground from May 1944 concerning anti-Polish actions”; in: „Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s”, in: Warsaw-Kiev 2005, vol. 4, part 2, p. 159 — web page: zbrodniawolynska.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
06985
date:
1944.05.05
site
description
general info
Cieszanów
The UPA massacred 8 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:
8
min. 8
max. 8
ref. no:
09256
date:
1945.01.18
site
description
general info
Cieszanów
The UPA murdered Mieczysław Białozorski, 24, a policeman.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; 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:
09501
date:
1945.03.06
site
description
general info
Cieszanów
The UPA murdered Władysław Wiśniewski.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1945”; 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:
10055
date:
1945.06.04
site
description
general info
Cieszanów
The Ukrainians murdered Julian Szajowski, 45.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11425
date:
1946
site
description
general info
Cieszanów
UPA murdered Marian Lisowski.
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1946 and in 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.28]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11110
date:
1946.06
site
description
general info
Cieszanów
In the town of Cieszanów, poviat Lubaczów, Marian Lisowski was murdered by the UPA.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11599
date:
1947.06.01
site
description
general info
Cieszanów
The UPA murdered 24‑year‑old Polish Army Private Włodzimierz Baranowski.
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1947”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.03.02]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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