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
Grobelki
Łuck pov., Volhynian voiv.
contemporary
Kivertsi rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
general info
locality non—existent
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
52
max.:
67
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00638
date:
1943.04
site
description
general info
Grobelki
The UPA members murdered 26 Poles: „Rodak Jan (+ 25 other unidentified employees of the forest district office), employee of the forest district office. Murdered after the UPA raid on the headquarters of the forest division. The corpse was burnt in the burned down building of the forest inspectorate. During the fight, two Koperski brothers (forester + secretary of forestry)” managed to escape.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – April 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [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:
26
min. 26
max. 26
ref. no:
02153
date:
1943.07
site
description
general info
The Ukrainians murdered at least 15 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
at least 15
min. 15
max. 15
ref. no:
02786
date:
1943.08
site
description
general info
Grobelki
In the Grobelki 'lodge belonging to the village of Dubiszcze, 30 of the „Ukrainian partisans” hacked the family of the forester Krępski with axes. „From the village In August 1943, from the village of Dubiszcze, about 30 The Ukrainians came to the forester's lodge of the Radziwiłł estate – Grobelka, about 1 km from Kolonia Grobelki. They surrounded the building. Using axes, they murdered the family of a forester, Władysław Krepski, and found his sister, pregnant Janina Krepska–Rodak, hidden in the apiary, first raped, then cut off their breasts and nailed them to the stable door. Her husband, Jan Rodak, senior commander in chief of the 8th Squadron of Pioneers in Rivne, was also murdered. He was one of the founders of the ZWZ–aK in this area. His then fifteen‑year‑old brother, Stefan Krepski, was tied with barbed wire and burned in a fire. His father John was also killed, a vet from the Potocki stud and a carter Cyprian Mróz (Moroza), who was my mother–in–law's father. Stanisław Kamiński, the gamekeeper, was shot and his six‑year‑old daughter, Teresa, was stabbed to death. They were all tortured by the Banderites looking for weapons. The chief of the gang, Waśko Lebied, with another torturer, led the forester to the stable, where the weapon was to be hidden. Visa was wearing a forester's boot and pulled it out. Wounded by an ax and a bullet, Krepski managed to escape, during which he shot one of the attackers. just Lebedia. Bernarda Majewska knew him because they went to school together, she witnessed this massacre, she took advantage of the moment of confusion and escaped as well. When her father was taken for questioning, she decided to flee, suddenly, Rysio's five‑year‑old son appeared, she just whispered to him to run away as much as possible. During this escape, the boy was pierced with a bayonet and his body was thrown into a pond. She also witnessed two girls being thrown into the well, and their mother Maria Zbróg forced to watch the scene and then murdered. One of the girls was Hela, and the other was Stasia, the younger one was 5 years old, and at least 26 people were murdered then. The Grobelki forester's lodge was burned down, and the forester's brother Tadeusz, returning from work in the Estate, returned to Ołyka. The mother–in–law was wounded in the hand by a barbarian's bullet and when she was sure that she had lost her relatives, she saw a group of people from the colony and her daughter Rosalia among them. Together they reached Ołyka and then the ordination of Fr Janusz Radziwiłł; there she told about this gathered people, incl. Tadeusz Krepski. My mother–in–law and my daughter later reached Lutsk, where she was treated by a German doctor, which the Ukrainians soon murdered. In Lutsk she accidentally met a Jewish woman who also escaped from the pogrom in the forester's lodge. She knew her only by sight, she knew that she was from Warsaw and she had found shelter with the widower Mieraelński in the Grobelki colony. In Lutsk, she said that she worked at an office called «General Police Station», and promised to visit, but never showed up. a year earlier, Michalina Kownacka – Słodkowska, who was related to the family of her mother–in–law, was murdered there. The described event could have taken place a month earlier, i.e. in July, because my son was under five and he would have finished it in August. The mother–in–law, with her father and her children, lived in the forester's lodge in the vicinity of the Kamiński and Zbrogi families”.
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]
I am the s/o that forester. There is a slight inaccuracy in the Siemaszek's account. My father's name was Władysław, and then my grandfather, Jan Krepski, who was a vet medical assistant, was murdered. at the stud on the Potocki estate; my uncle Janina Rodak–Krępska and my uncle Stefan. My Dad died in 1977. He was a forester in Sobowidz, then in Opaleniu in the province. Pomeranian.
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: Roman, discussion forum, 21-12-2008
Siemaszko et Siemaszko […] say that the above–mentioned the attack took place in August 1943 in the village of Dubiszcze, on the forest inspectorate, where the family of the forester Stanisław Krępski lived. They raped, cut off the breasts and slaughtered his wife with an ax, and Krępski, who was wounded with an ax, managed to escape, during which he killed one of the attackers. They state the number of victims – „1 Polish”. On p. 581 they report that in April 1943, 26 people were murdered in the Grobelki forest district; by name they name 4 victims.
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: Siemaszko Władysław, Siemaszko Ewa, „The genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population of Volhynia 1939 - 1945”, in: Warsaw 2000, p. 580
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
at least 26
min. 26
max. 26
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