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
Czyszczak
Kołomyja pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Velyka Kam'yanka
Kolomyia rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
60
max.:
60
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
08423
date:
1944.11.25
site
description
general info
Czyszczak
The UPA, belonging to the village of Kamionka Wielka, robbed and burned Polish farms and murdered 50 Poles, and at the end of November 10 more; including a family of 7 with 5 children, a mother with 4 children. „On November 25, 1944, the Bandera followers of the Świątkowski family alone murdered 32 people that night. They were all buried in one common grave. Many other families died that night, incl. from the Peca family of 5 people. Banderites killed men with arrows in the back of the head and placed them face down on the floor, while women and girls were murdered in bed, probably after raping. I couldn't tear their bodies away from the quilts and feathers of frozen blood. In other Polish houses in Czyszczak, several small children had their tongues nailed to the table with a knife. Several young girls were attacked by the attackers who had cut their mouths from ear to ear. They laughed then and said: «There it is your Poland, from sea to sea»”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Świątkowska Malwina, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 264
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
60
min. 60
max. 60
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