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
Dembówka
Kowel pov., Volhynian voiv.
contemporary
Kovel rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
general info
locality non—existent
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
8
max.:
10
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00227
date:
1943.03.18
site
description
general info
Dembówka
The Ukrainians murdered brothers Adam and Jan Rydzanek.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
02130
date:
1943.07
site
description
general info
Dembówka
In Dąbrówka village Wielick municipality in Kowel county: „In the same period (i.e. in July 1943 – comment by: Stanislaus Żurek), In Dąbrówka (Wielick commune), a forest inspector, a retired colonel of the Polish Army, and the owner of a mill, traveling from Kamień Koszyrski to Kowel, was murdered”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Dłuski Stanisław, „A fragment of a great crime”; in: „Polish Forest”, in: No. 10, 1991
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
02132
date:
1943.07
site
description
general info
Dembówka
[The Ukrainians] murdered the Polish family of Śmigielski. Others: „In the same period, in Dąbrówka (probably the Dembówka colony — note by S. Ż.) (Wielick commune), a forest inspector, a retired colonel of the Polish Army, a mill owner, driving from Kamień Koszycki to Kowel was murdered”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Dłuski Stanisław, „A fragment of a great crime”; in: „Polish Forest”, in: No. 10, 1991
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1 family
min. 4
max. 6
ref. no:
03078
date:
1943.06–1943.09
(summer)
site
description
general info
Dembówka
(forestry inspectorate)
In Dąbrówka village Wielick municipality in Kowel county a Pole, owner of the mill, Colonel of the Polish Army, was murdered by the Ukrainians during the return from Kamień Korycki to Kowel.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „The 75th anniversary of the genocide – August and the summer of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Orłowski Edward, „Foresters who died during the war and persecution in 1938-1949 in Eastern Lesser Poland and the post-war Rzeszów region”; in: Regional Directorate of State Forests in Krosno — web page: www.krosno.lasy.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.01.29]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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EXPLANATIONs
- Lack of info about the perpetrators in the description of a given event (Incident) indicates that the blame should be attributed to the perpetrators listed in general info section.
- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
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