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
Kłodno Wielkie
Żółkiew pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Velyke Kolodno
Kamianka-Buzka rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
184
max.:
184
events (incidents)
ref. no:
11677
date:
1939–1947
(unknown)
site
description
general info
Kłodno Wielkie
In the village of Kłodno, poviat Przemyślany: „At an unknown time, 5 NN men were thrown into the fire”.
source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Komański and Siekierka for the Tarnopol province (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2015, vol. 7
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1947”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.03.02]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
03379
date:
1943.10.10
site
description
general info
Kłodno Wielkie
The Ukrainians murdered Jan Lipski.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – October 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
04727
date:
1944.01.27
site
description
general info
Kłodno Wielkie
Ukrainians murdered Maria Konarska, born in November 25, 1925 Account of Jan Podgórski: „At the end of January (today I do not remember the exact date) […] In the morning, getting off at the Kłodno Wielkie station, I saw a Ukrainian with a whip, who asked me if I had brought him medicines for his family, I replied that I had, then he announced that my wife and children were alive and that they were fine, but he advised me to leave as soon as possible. «Today they were mine, so I was able to defend myself, when others came, I will not be able to». – As it turned out later – he was the leader of the Ukrainian gang that attacked the village yesterday and who only waited to pick up the drugs and finish with me. Since I hadn't come the day before, he put his men around our house so that no one would disturb my family, he was so anxious for these medicines. I got into the sleigh with him and we drove to his house. Then, on the way to my home, I went to the forestry where we used to live. There I met my wife and Paweł. My wife was shocked and begged me, crying, to run away as soon as possible. We were standing next to a dying forester's maid lying in a pool of blood. Unfortunately, I was not able to help anything anymore. She was shot in the lungs when she recognized one of the bandits. The forester Załęski left the Forestry on the previous day. His deputy forester, Chuciński, and his family lived in our former apartment. Wife and child. He told us that when the Ukrainians arrived, he started firing a shotgun with «choppers» he had made. He shot one of them. He was sitting in the corner while his wife was handing him bullets. The bandits locked him in the house and blocked the door with a stump. They did not come for him, but for Załęski, so they left him alone, he was not a local. As I found out later, he went to his mother somewhere near Żółtaniec, and there he was caught by the bullets of the murderers […] During the same night in our commune a dozen or so people were murdered – Poles, their children and families. Our further stay in this area became impossible”.
Account of Jan Podgórski's mother: „We could hear single shots, and glows of fires appeared in various places […] This is how the whole night passed. In the morning the «mołojec» [Eng. young Cossacks] were gone. We heard the rattle of the car driving away. Suddenly, someone knocked on the porch door. It turned out that he was a mutilated, barefoot and cold, about 10‑year‑old s/o a gamekeeper from Sapieżanka (a neighboring village where there was a forester's lodge). He was crying and shaking all over. He said «father and mother killed, the forester's lodge burned, and I jumped out of the window and hid in the bushes». We gave him warm clothes, fed him and treated him, fortunately not serious wounds, and he went on to his aunt, who lived in Kłodnie […] Paweł ran to the Leśniczówka. He came back and said that the forester and his family were alive but their Ukrainian maidservant who needed help was shot. We ran there. We couldn't help the girl anymore, she was in agony, lying in a pool of blood. Mr. Chuciński talked about the fact that she recognized the attacker and shouted «Ivan, you with the gang?» and he shot her”. .
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Podgórski Jan, „Kłodno - Hermancin October 1939 - February 1944”, memoirs of a veterinarian and neurologist, assistant professor at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, regarding the period of stay in Kłodnie - written in the 1980s, compiled by her daughter Anna Wiśniewska in 2009; in: portal: Kłodno Wielkie – recollections, reports — web page: klodno.blogspot.com [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
05988
date:
1944.03
site
description
general info
Kłodno Wielkie
The Banderites burnt 80 buildings and the parish church, and murdered 40 Poles. Barbara: „My grandmother, Bronisława Warszawska lived in Kłodnie, she tells a lot about this place. Her husband, Wojciech Nikratowicz, killed and thrown into a well at the local church. This information comes from the Polish” RED CROSS.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: web page: lwowinfo5.blogspot.com [accessible: 2009.08.16]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
40
min. 40
max. 40
ref. no:
06192
date:
1944.03
site
description
general info
Kłodno Wielkie
Our delegation in Żółkiew informs us that in the surrounding villages, Ukrainian terrorist gangs have recently brutally murdered about 80 people of Polish nationality, in particular in Wola Wysocka 11 people, in Kładno Wielki 40, in Wiązowa 16, Janówka 10, Fujna 8, Zameczek 3, in Rokitna 30. After the murders, these gangs set fire to the farms of the murdered Poles and, after waiting for the fire to consume them completely, they leave quietly, not pursued by any authorities. The church in Kładno Wielki burnt down. These attacks keep repeating themselves, often taking place so close to the city of Zhovkva that the fire can be clearly seen there.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, April 13 - PolKO Lwów-poviat letter to the RGO Delegate in Lviv regarding the murders of the Polish population by Ukrainian gangs in the area of Żółkiew”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 247
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
40
min. 40
max. 40
ref. no:
06966
date:
1944.05.02–1944.05.03
site
description
general info
Kłodno Wielkie
On 2/3/1944 there was a great attack on Kłodno: 150 farms were burnt. Ukrainian nationalists pretended to be Polish guerrillas. No details. It is worth noting that two The Ukrainians from Kłodno fought with Poles against the Banderites in defense of the village. They were Duda Iwan and Palyga Iwan. Unfortunately, they both died.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Stanisław Jastrzębski for the Lubelskie Voivodeship (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2016, vol. 8
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
unknown (150 farms)
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
07800
date:
1944.08.24
site
description
general info
Kłodno Wielkie
The UPA murdered 10 Poles, including burning an 11‑year‑old boy and a 60‑year‑old man alive.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
10
min. 10
max. 10
ref. no:
07809
date:
1944.08.25–1944.08.26
site
description
general info
Kłodno Wielkie
The UPA massacred 72 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
72
min. 72
max. 72
ref. no:
08144
date:
1944.10.12
site
description
general info
Kłodno Wielkie
The Ukrainians murdered 16‑year‑old Ludwik Rudaniecki.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
09406
date:
1945.02.14
site
description
general info
Kłodno Wielkie
The Ukrainians murdered 21‑year‑old Józef Łukawski.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
09538
date:
1945.03.18
site
description
general info
Kłodno Wielkie
Józef Rudaniecki, 19, died in the fight against the UPA in defense of the Polish population.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
09733
date:
1945.04.08
site
description
general info
Kłodno Wielkie
[The Ukrainians] burnt the 8–person Polish Chrzanowski family alive.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
8
min. 8
max. 8
ref. no:
09938
date:
1945.05.10
site
description
general info
Kłodno Wielkie
The Ukrainians killed 2 Poles: one died in combat, the other was kidnapped and murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
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