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.:
18
max.:
64
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
02617
date:
1943.08.29
site
description
general info
Iwanówka
Orthodox feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: they murdered 10 Poles: a family of 7 with 5 children and a mother with 2 children. „In the Ukrainian village of Ivanovka, a Ukrainian UPA militia murdered three Polish families living there. They died in a tragic way; Stanisław Chmielewski, his wife Maria, children Cecylia, Józef, Teofil and two more with forgotten names. They were buried in the yard of one of the” farms.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „The 75th anniversary of the genocide – August and the summer of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Szarwiło Bogusław, „«Hell» in the Grove”; in: „Borderlands Information Service”, in: No. 3/2911
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
10
min. 10
max. 10
ref. no:
03240
date:
1943.09
site
description
general info
Iwanówka
(in the vicinity)
The Ukrainians murdered several Polish families; including a widow with 3 children, a family of 4 brought from Gaj and a few local families; a school–age girl Helena Cymbała was murdered by the UPA leader in Janówka by Telemon Majdaniec with an ax and a shovel. Majdaniec with his militia kidnapped the widow of Szwedowa and her children from Gaj to Janówka; daughters 9 and 11 years old, son Władysław, 10 years old, son Tadeusz, 23 years old with his wife and 2.5 year old son. In early September, he murdered them with sharp tools, simultaneously murdering Karol Szwed, who lived in Janówka, with his wife and two children. Other Poles who did not leave Janówka on time also died.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
few families
min. 8
max. 54
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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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