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.:
29
max.:
29
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
02788
date:
1943.08
site
description
general info
Gruszówka
The Ukrainians murdered 9 Poles: women and children going to Zasmyki; including: Helena Wojtczak was stabbed with a bayonet 18, her 9‑year‑old son Henryk was strangled with a belt, her daughter Zofia was shot during the escape.
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: „Information Bulletin of the 27th Volhynia Division of the Home Army AK”, in: No. 1/1993
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
9
min. 9
max. 9
ref. no:
02556
date:
1943.08.22
site
description
general info
Gruszówka
In the forest near the forester's lodge, 20 Poles from Radowicze were murdered: 7 going to church and 13 returning from the church in Zasmyki after the service.
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: Winiarski Józef; in: Kulińska Lucyna (ed.), „Children of the Borderlands III”, in: Krakow 2009, p. 349—357
source: Szarwiło Bogusław, „In Głęboczyce in the last days of August”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.btx.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
20
min. 20
max. 20
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