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
Hallerczyn
Brody pov., Tarnopol voiv.
contemporary
Brody rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
general info
locality non—existent
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
6
max.:
12
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
02957
date:
1943.09.02–1943.09.03
site
description
general info
The UPA murdered 12 Poles (11 from the Hallerczyn colony), including Fr Michał Duszeńka and robbed and burnt the presbytery. „On the night of September 3, 1943. Rzeszowianka, the commune of Ponikowiec, county Brody. They were murdered by a Ukrainian gang of peasants from the village of Wysocko and other nearby Roman Catholic priests. Fr Michał Duszenko. The perpetrators arrived in the” wagon.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Central Archives of Modern Records, in: AK, ref. No. 203 /XV/ 9, sh. 170—174
In Wysock and Kadłubiska the Gestapo arrested 19 Ukrainians. „the individuals pleaded guilty, claiming that they had murdered Fr Greek–Catholic from Wysocka Mikołaj Harwaniek. After revising Fr The chalice from the church that Father Duszeńko kept at home and the cassock” were found.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Central Archives of Modern Records, in: AK, ref. No. 203 /XV/ 9, sh. 170—174
St. in memory of Fr Duszeńko received seven dum–dum caliber bullets, which the Ukrainian police used to liquidate the ghetto, and several stabs. He did not die in superhuman torments only two hours after committing the crime. Other victims of the robbery were also murdered with true Eastern cruelty with knives. The tiny baby in the cradle was not spared, nor was the pregnant woman whose fetus had been torn from her entrails.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „The glow over Volhynia”; in: portal: Weekly Review — web page: w`ww.tygodnikprzeglad.pl [accessible: 2022.04.06]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
12
min. 12
max. 12
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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.
- English contemporary name of the site — in accordance with naming conventions used in Google Maps.
- Contemporary regional info about the site — if in Ukraine than in accordance to administrative structure of Ukraine valid till 2020.
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- Assumptions as to the number of victims ⇒ click HERE.