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
Ćwitowa
Kałusz pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Tsvitova
Kalush rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
27
max.:
30
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04202
date:
1943
site
description
general info
Ćwitowa
One Pole was shot and the other was severely injured.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; 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:
05821
date:
1944.03.27–1944.03.28
site
description
general info
Ćwitowa
Dad was tortured and burned on the night of March 27–28, 1944 […] The Ruthenians did not spare my mother and our bitterness. Here, after a few days, they brought the news that the forester's family had been murdered during the night. It was told in terrible detail. It started with torturing a toddler and then older children in front of their parents. Then a cruel fate befell the wife, and finally the forester. A pile of tortured bodies with forks stuck in them remained for a long time. Only one girl survived, she was staying with her family that night.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Baszczyński Włodzimierz Jan, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 173—182
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
6 – 8
min. 6
max. 8
ref. no:
05803
date:
1944.03.27
site
description
general info
Ćwitowa
The Banderites kidnapped 45‑year‑old Roman Baczyński and, after being tortured, murdered and burned him.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 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:
05868
date:
1944.03.31
site
description
general info
Ćwitowa
After being tortured, the Banderites murdered the 8–person Polish family of a forester with 6 children.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 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:
06689
date:
1944.04
site
description
general info
Ćwitowa
At the beginning of April, the Bandera followers murdered 11 Poles, husbands of Ukrainian women and their sons; They spared their lives for Ukrainian wives and their daughters. „Dad was tortured and burned on the night of March 27–28, 1944 […] The Ruthenians did not spare my mother and our bitterness. Here, after a few days, they brought the news that the forester's family had been murdered during the night. It was told in terrible detail. It started with torturing a toddler and then older children in front of their parents. Then a cruel fate befell his wife, and finally a forester. A pile of tortured bodies with forks stuck in them remained for a long time. Only one girl survived, she was staying with her family that night. This event was confirmed by a favorable Ruthenian peasant. Then the child who had returned to the house full of dead bodies came to us with pain and crying for help. Mom was helpless, she asked the girl that she would quickly flee to a family who lived in a Polish settlement, where a Hungarian unit was stationed in the quarters, requested in the command to defend against the murder of the inhabitants and the burning of the village by bands of Banderites. There were too many of us to escape unnoticed. There was no longer any access to the nearby Bukaczowce. It was not possible to cross over. The only way to save us to distant towns or Kałusz led through forests, and on it we were threatened with the inevitable, because in a remote area, cruel death in torture! Mother prepared us for the fact that it would be easier to die in the vicinity of people with whom we had so far lived in friendship. In a few days, again, people brought the cruel news to my mother. All Poles married to Rusyns and their sons were murdered that night in the village. There were only a few of them in Ćwitowa. They were older people already. Grieving wives were kept, and husbands and sons were beaten with orcs. Then they were dragged out with horses, tied by their legs, still dying into the thickets of the Dniester […] The misfortunes that unexpectedly fell on Poles living alone or in mixed families, probably are not statistically possible. Those who accidentally survived, never complained to anyone of the constant great stress and inner fear of the lurking mysterious enemy. Because this is how Poles in Poland were mixed up by Stalinism with Ukrainian chauvinists and, which is very likely, with those who got to Poland with the documents of those who were murdered, and even held high positions in Polish offices and economic institutions. There were many more that acted clandestinely”. .
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Baszczyński Włodzimierz Jan, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 173—182
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
11
min. 11
max. 11
ref. no:
06690
date:
1944.04
site
description
general info
Kazimierz Burdzy was found murdered in the forest: he was hanging from a tree, his eyes gouged out and his tongue cut off.
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
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