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.:
133
max.:
203
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04573
date:
1944.01.01
site
description
general info
Huta Werchobuzka
The UPA and Ukrainian peasants murdered over 100 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Sikorski Franciszek, „Iwa the green”, in: Wroclaw 1984, p. 191
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
100
min. 100
max. 100
ref. no:
05483
date:
1944.03.02
site
description
general info
Huta Werchobuzka
On March 2, 1944, priest Jan Cieński came from Złoczów to Huta Werchobuzka, having a permit from the German authorities to bury the victims. During the Holy Mass Those gathered were alerted that an SS–Galizien expedition was heading towards Huta Werchobuzka, which caused panic and people escaped into the forest. Only a few people remained in the chapel with the priest. While surrounding the village, three escaped people were shot. There were no more victims, and the German, commander of the expedition, questioned those present and allowed them to go to Huta Pieniacka to bury the murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siemaszko Ewa, „Now the war - no relatives”; in: „Nasz Dziennik”, in: 28.II-1.III.2009
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
05726
date:
1944.03.20
site
description
general info
Huta Werchobuzka
The UPA and Ukrainian SS men from SS „Galizien–Hałyczyna” attacked at dawn in the strength of about 600 attackers; the Home Army unit took up the defense, covering the escape of Poles; 30 Poles were murdered or killed.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 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. 500
Ewa Siemaszko gives the date of the „raid of a several hundred UPA” gang on March 22, 1944 and the murder of 40 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siemaszko Ewa, „Now the war - no relatives”; in: „Nasz Dziennik”, in: 28.II-1.III.2009
W. Kubów dates the attack on March 22, the murder of 30 Poles, including the Zawadzki family of 13.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
About 2 weeks after the destruction of the village of Huta Pieniacka, our gang, together with the Volhynia UPA gang and the UPA gangs from nearby villages, attacked and pogromed the village of Huta Wierchobuska in the Oleski region, located 5 km from the village of Huta Pieniacka. The reason for the pogrom of this village, as I testified above, was that its inhabitants also maintained contacts with the red guerrillas. As a result of the pogrom of the village of Huta Wierchobuska, about 60—70 houses with farm buildings were burnt. About 100 inhabitants were also killed while trying to escape from the village. The UPA gang robbed the property and cattle of the pogrom victims.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Extract from the NKGB intelligence case of the USRS No. 40 «Zwiery» on events in Huta Pieniacka”, Arch. no 2387, p. 26, 50, 55, 56, 112; in: „Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s”, in: Warsaw-Kiev 2005, vol. 4, part 2, p. 101 — web page: zbrodniawolynska.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
source: State Archives of the Security Service of Ukraine, in: F. 26, op. 2, case 2, sh. 208—211
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
30 – 100
min. 30
max. 100
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