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
Horpin
Kamionka Strumiłowa pov., Tarnopol voiv.
contemporary
Horpyn
Kamianka-Buzka rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
87
max.:
118
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
06724
date:
1944.04
site
description
general info
Horpin
[The Ukrainians] burned down 350 buildings, a church and an orphanage run by nuns, and murdered 31 Poles and a Ukrainian, a Pole's wife, with their 4 underage sons. „Three families: Michał and Maria Banach with their sons Michał and Franciszek, Michał and Maria Łubiński with their son Stanisław and daughters: Rozalia and Cecylia as well as Mikołaj and Paulina Harasik with their children: Michał, Piotr, Maria and Michalina, lived in Horpin, in the district of Kamionka Strumiłowa, in the voivodeship Ternopil. Only Michał Łubiński worked outside agriculture. He made linen canvases and had a weaving workshop. In 1944, criminal Ukrainian gangs murdered the population in a brutal manner, burned their belongings, not sparing Horpin and his inhabitants, who decided to flee from inevitable death. They would certainly share the fate of Father Franciszek Banach, who stayed with his wife, A Ukrainian in Horpin, where a Ukrainian neighbor shot him. The Banachs packed small household equipment, grain, took the cows and took a freight train, and from the Sapieszanka station they set off westwards”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Banach”; in: „Borderlands Book - Jarosław”, Borderlands Heritage Association — web page: jaroslawskaksiegakresowian.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
32 – 36
min. 32
max. 36
ref. no:
06590
date:
1944.04.27–1944.04.28
site
description
general info
Horpin
[The Ukrainians] burned down 350 buildings, a church and an orphanage run by nuns, and murdered 31 Poles and a Ukrainian, a Polish wife with their 4 underage sons; they hanged the woman on a tree; they tortured, burned alive.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
32
min. 32
max. 32
ref. no:
08048
date:
1944.09
site
description
general info
Horpin
Among the dozens of Banderite victims, only 23 people were identified: Banach Michał, 70, Brother Piotr, Brother Andrzej, Brother Michał, Chrzanowski Michał, his son, Chrzanowski Mikołaj, Czerniecki Andrzej, 33, Czerniecka Katarzyna, Czerniecki Jan, Czerniecka Maria (Ukrainian), her 5 sons (names could not be determined), Karwacki Michał, his son Stanisław, Mielnik Melania, Mielnik Michał, Mielnik Tekla and their two children.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
23 – 50
min. 23
max. 50
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