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.:
1
max.:
1
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00663
date:
1943.04
site
description
general info
Kniahynin
My cousin from Kniahynin near Dubno, in April 1943, they came and took my husband from home at night, barely in his pajamas, and led them towards Styr and my wife ran after them, crying, to give her back her husband, and they ran even faster and the husband saw that he would never miss death. He would say to his wife: Janeczka, come back to the children, you must live for the children, I am already falling victim to Janeczko, come back. But she, out of love for her husband, ran after him. They came to the river Styr. For the fact that she followed him to death, they took his head off and put it in their arms, and they threw him into the Styr River, saying that let the fish eat it. And she, poor, brought this head to the children. One was 5 years old and the other was 2 years old. Splashed with all her husband's blood, she washed, kissed her treasure, managed to buy a coffin and buried it in the cemetery, which she had not seen since then, she managed to escape to Lutsk herself.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – April 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Wolf Józefa z. d Zawilska, „Memories”; in: portal: Volhynia pages — web page: free.of.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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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.
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