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.:
64
max.:
68
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00769
date:
1943.05.06
site
description
general info
Klepaczów
The UPA massacred two Polish–Ukrainian families and 25 Poles with sharp tools, including children aged 3 and 6 who had their eyes gaped out. Hieronim Wardoch in the book „Witnesses say” states that the murder took place on the night of May 7 to 8, simultaneously with the neighboring village of Katerynówka. At the same time, Poles in the nearby Retowo colony were murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – May 1943, Spring 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2 families + 25
min. 33
max. 37
ref. no:
00774
date:
1943.05.07–1943.05.08
site
description
general info
Klepaczów
The UPA massacred 30 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – May 1943, Spring 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Wardach Hieronim; in: „The witnesses say”, in: Warsaw 1996, p. 62
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
30
min. 30
max. 30
ref. no:
03098
date:
1943.06–1943.09
(summer)
site
description
general info
Klepaczów
The Ukrainians tied Dionizy Markowski with barbed wire and murdered him.
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]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
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