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.:
1
max.:
1
events (incidents)
ref. no:
06376
date:
1944.04.10
site
description
general info
Ćwierć (Ćwiercie)
Easter Monday – „Władysław Nowakowski was the brother of my grandmother Katarzyna née Nowakowska. From information obtained from my family, I know that Władysław's death took place exactly on the 2nd day of Easter 1944, i.e. 10 / o4 / 1944. He was taken by two The Ukrainians (one of them was called Tatar), from a house in Ćwierć / now part of Narajów. on 09/04/1944 The next day he was found in his father's orchard. He must have suffered a lot before he died, because his fingers were bitten and his nails were full of dirt. I don't know where he is buried. On that day, i.e. 10/04/1944, only the house of my grandparents and great–grandparents was burnt in Ćwierć. One of the Ukrainians, who kept my grandmother's family under the rifle, had his tongue cut off as a punishment that he would be burned […] Let me mention that in 1943, Piotr Nowakowski, Władysław's brother, was killed by unknown perpetrators on the road from Narajów to Ćwierć”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Lucyna, March 22, 2011
Myrosław Onyszkewycz „Orest Karat” gave the order: „I order you to purge your area immediately from the Polish element and Ukrainian–Bolshevik agents. The purge should be carried out in riverside hostels sparsely populated by Poles. To this end, create a militia near the area, composed of our members, whose task would be to eliminate the above–mentioned. Our larger hostels will be cleared of this element by our military units even in broad daylight […] The clearing of the area must be completed before our Easter so that we can celebrate it without Poles. Remember that when the Bolsheviks find us with Poles in our territory, they will slaughter us all […] Make a hard, ruthless fight with them. Not to spare anyone, even in mixed marriages. To take Lachs out of their houses, but The Ukrainians and children in these houses should not be liquidated […] Get the gun. Death to the Poles. Stop, April 6, 1944. Glory to the heroes! Orest, Karat” This order is in the files of the investigation against Myroslav Onyshhevych.
source: Miszko Przemysław, Matkowski Krzysztof, „Crimes of genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists in Eastern Lesser Poland in 1939—1945 against persons of Polish nationality - in the light of investigations by OKŚZPNP in Wrocław”; in: „Crimes of the past, studies and materials of IPN prosecutors”, in: Warszawa 2008, vol. 2 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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