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.:
20
max.:
20
events (incidents)
ref. no:
03490
date:
1943.10.27
site
description
general info
Horodnica
The Banderites kidnapped and murdered an 18‑year‑old Pole, NN.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – October 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
05879
date:
1944.01–1944.03
site
description
general info
Horodnica
The Ukrainians murdered 5 Poles, including a family of 4; 1 man, 2 women, 2 girls.
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:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
04882
date:
1944.02.02
site
description
general info
Horodnica
During the night, the Bandera followers murdered 14 Poles, including the burning of 2 small children and a 77‑year‑old woman named Gajda.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; 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. 232
And: „Murder in Horodnica – a symptom of the wildest instincts of Ukrainian fat – 7 corpses. On the night of February 3 this year. local and local The Ukrainians attacked the presbytery and Polish houses in three groups. One group stormed the rectory, where the parish priest Franków defended himself, injured one of the attackers with a heavy ashtray and managed to escape. After the robbery, the attackers set the buildings on fire. The rectory was completely burnt. The attackers believed that Fr Franks. This one, however, survived. The second group attacked the homestead of Field Karol, whom he and his wife shot, then smashed their heads with an ax and threw their brains out. The third group operated in the house of Antoni Kaczan, whose wife was murdered, and Kaczan himself was taken to a barn and ordered to dig a hole. At one point Kaczan started to run away. The attackers fired after him, but he jumped into the river, plunged. And so he escaped from certain death. Apart from Karol (46 years old) and Maciej (44 years old). Field soldiers and Barbara Kaczan (38) were murdered: Gajda Maria, 78, Gajda Franciszka, 34, Gajda Barbara, 32, Cirko Józef, 18 […] . The dead bodies of the murdered were gathered by the murderers in the Kaczanów barn in a dug hole and the barn was burned. Completely charred remains were found, showing the terrible appearance of”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, March 5-11, Weekly report of the Information and Press Department of the District Government Delegation in Lviv concerning the Ukrainian terror, prepared by Dr. Kazimierz Świrski (aka "Brother")”
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
14
min. 14
max. 14
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