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.:
0
max.:
0
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04282
date:
1943
site
description
general info
Kaszówka
Kaszówka, a place as if hidden by the green of the forest, like a small place on earth among a sea of trees and bushes. The cemetery from the First World War period, where soldiers of the Polish Legions, Russian soldiers and modestly rest, somewhere at the end of the cemetery of the victims of the crimes of 1943 […] . their places on earth. Few of them survived from the hands of their torturers, a few were helped by their neighbors, the Ukrainians. The rest are in their graves forever. They are sleeping, now in the forest, trees have covered this patch on the ground like an umbrella protecting them from the struggles and problems of this world.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Autumn work in Volhynia”, October 19, 2015 — web page: www.fundacja-niepodleglosci.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
Siemaszko et Siemaszko […] indicate that there was 1 Polish family in the village of Kaszówka, they do not write about its fate.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siemaszko Władysław, Siemaszko Ewa, „The genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population of Volhynia 1939 - 1945”, in: Warsaw 2000, p. 397
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
unknown
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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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