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.:
162
max.:
162
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04063
date:
1943.12
site
description
general info
Głęboczek
Antoni Łoziński was murdered in the 1950s.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
05960
date:
1944.03
site
description
general info
Głęboczek
In March 1944, a few days after the men were taken to the Polish Army, four Poles died as a result of UPA raids. Henryk Komański and Szczepan Siekierka on pp. 38–40 report that 128 Poles and 3 The Ukrainians were killed in all attacks by Ukrainian nationalists in Głęboczek.
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:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
08236
date:
1944.10
site
description
general info
Głęboczek
[The Ukrainians] murdered 18 Poles: 15 repairing the road and 3 at the mill. „On the cold autumn day of October 1944, we were informed that Dominik and his colleagues working on the road near Głęboczek had been killed by the Bandera followers. They made the murder during the day. They rode up on horses from Borszczów and simply shot people as if they were ducks. Dominik ran away towards the village. He won't have time to reach the buildings. On the same day, Dominik was not found. It was only on the next day that his wife, aunt Franciszka, found him. He was completely pulled down. My aunt said that a Ukrainian from Głęboczek would strip off their clothes and shoes, fold them on a cart and take them home. On the same day, the Bandera followers intended to pogrom Poles in Głęboczek. They were repulsed because the Poles were armed. The next day, the funeral of nine young men took place. The funeral was organized by gentlemen: D. and O (from aunt's account). a guard of Soviet soldiers assisted. Even a machine gun was set up for safety. Father Mazur gave a fiery homily at the grave. He said: «This grave will one day bloom with a white lily!»”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Walków Mieczysław, „Blog - chronicle of Mietek W. on our website”
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
18
min. 18
max. 18
ref. no:
08490
date:
1944.11
site
description
general info
Głęboczek
The Banderites murdered 15 Poles: Baszczak Józef, 42, Kwiczek Dominik, 32, Kijowski Michał, 48, Ksiądzyna Albin, 42, Łziński, Michał, 43, Macyszyn Władysław, 40, Mazurek Franciszek, 40, Szymków Ludwik l 34 and 7 men with unknown names.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
At the beginning of November 1944, murdered at the mill: two people NN. They died without a trace: Zawiślak Florian; Zawiślak Bronisław s/o Florian; Wesoła Ludwika, 38, was raped and died under torture.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Komański and Siekierka for the Tarnopol province (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2015, vol. 7
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
15
min. 15
max. 15
ref. no:
08696
date:
1944.12.25
(before)
site
description
general info
Głęboczek
Before Christmas, a young woman (very pretty) went to Głęboczek home to buy food. She left her husband and a small child in town. She went and thought she would be safer than her husband. The Banderites caught her, stripped her of her clothes, raped her and tied her naked to a horse. They dragged it over hard frozen lumps and over the stubble after the corn harvest. And so they abandoned the massacred body outside the city. I keep asking myself: How low can those who claim to be human and believe in the same God fall ?!.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Walków Mieczysław, „Blog - chronicle of Mietek W. on our website”
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
09216
date:
1945.01.04–1945.01.05
site
description
general info
Głęboczek
The Banderites murdered 97 Poles and 21 people were wounded and burned. The victims were women, children and the elderly, because on March 20, 1944, as a result of general mobilization to the army, men aged 18 to 55 and girls aged 18 to 23 were called up. „This time there was no one left to organize the defense […] The bandits thoroughly searched the farm buildings and murdered every Pole found there with unprecedented cruelty, regardless of sex and age. At the time when some groups carried out the slaughter, others were engaged in robbery and, after it was done, setting fires. The captured victims were subjected to severe torture: strips of skin were torn off, genitals were cut, the intestines were dragged out of the abdominal cavity, etc. The victims, left in this state, died in agony for several hours. My close neighbor, a fourteen‑year‑old boy, Janek Łoziński, died with this death. Others were also crucified on fences, and their hands and feet were nailed to them. This is how a fourteen‑year‑old boy died – Janek Zawiślak (Kostek). Only the few who tried to save themselves by escaping died of bullets. They killed infirm people on the spot with bayonets or an ax. Some of the tortured were tied up with barbed wire and thrown into a deep well. Only from one school in the backyard of a Polish school, 14 people were pulled out a few days after the attack […] All the possessions were plundered and 80% of the village was burnt. The next day, the Soviet authorities ordered the evacuation of the rest of the Głęboczek's population to Borszczów, claiming that the Poles should go to Poland because they could not ensure safety. While waiting for rail transport, a week after the last raid, 6 people went to Głęboczek to collect previously hidden things […] Both daughters of Antoni Tkacz were captured and taken to the forge of a blacksmith named Zwarycz. There they were subjected to cruel tortures: their tongues were cut out, their breasts were cut off, strips of skin were torn off, and they were burned with a hot iron. Ludwika Wesoła was also subjected to similar tortures, and then she was tied with barbed wire and strapped to her horse by her legs and dragged at a gallop on” stone boulders.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Juzwenko Bernard, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 530
Acting in the underground, District Delegate of the Polish Government in Czortków, Józef Opacki pseudonym „Mohort”, this is how the situation was characterized at that time: „The Banderites took control of a whole series of villages in which they established their administrative authorities. All kinds of current official files in various fields, including the” quota cases, were destroyed.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Opacki Józef nom—de—guerre „Mohort”, „Memories”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław
A description of the crime in Głęboczek was included in the materials „by Mohort”: „Some children were nailed to fences (ears, hands, feet were attached)”.
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:
97
min. 97
max. 97
ref. no:
09233
date:
1945.01.12–1945.01.13
site
description
general info
Głęboczek
Recently, large UPA gangs appeared in the Borszczów region, which came to these areas from across the Dniester. The local UPA militias who came to the area have joined forces and are using terror against party and administrative activism as well as Polish marvels. On the night of January 12–13 in the village of Głęboczek, a group of up to 200 people burned down a part of the village inhabited by Poles. Houses burned – 80, sheds – 79, barns – 44, horses – 19, cows – 23, pigs – 15 and goats – 3. 21 people were killed, including 18 Poles and 3 Ukrainians. While setting fire to houses, the bandits said: „We are avenging you for our commander «ZWINKA», murdered by the NKGB operational group near the village of Głęboczek”. The gang headed towards the village of Konstancja in the Skała region.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Special report of the head of the NKGB RO in Borszczów to the head of the UNKGB of the Tarnopol region of January 16, 1945”, fragment; in: „Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s”, in: Warsaw-Kiev 2005, vol. 4, part 2 — web page: zbrodniawolynska.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
The night attacks of January 4–5 and January 15, 1945.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 39—40
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
21
min. 21
max. 21
ref. no:
09243
date:
1945.01.15
site
description
general info
Głęboczek
The Ukrainians murdered 5 Poles (3 young women and 2 men) who had gone to the village for hidden food and personal belongings. They were: Mazur Weronika, 25, Macyszyn Helena, 25, Wesoła Ludwika, 38, Zawiślak Florian, 60, his son Bronisław, 16.
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:
5
min. 5
max. 5
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