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
Helenówka Werbska
Włodzimierz Wołyński pov., Volhynian voiv.
contemporary
Volodymyr-Volynskyi rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
general info
locality non—existent
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
40
max.:
62
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
05003
date:
1944.02.13
site
description
general info
Helenówka Werbska
German troops appeared, so the Polish self–defense buried the weapons. Shortly after their departure, several hundred UPAs from the villages of Marcelówka, Mohylno, Gnojno and Werba attacked; The German–Ukrainian action was therefore well synchronized. Poles were murdered in a terrible way, the colonies were burnt. They murdered over 40 Poles. Others: A Polish woman whose father named Miazga died then, in a statement to the „daily Rzeczpospolita” gave the name of the village as „Chylinówka”, where the „UPA killed 62 people, including 8 children of”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Rzeczpospolita”, in: July 2, 2003
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
40 – 62
min. 40
max. 62
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EXPLANATIONs
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- 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.
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