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
Kobaki
Kosów Huculski pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Kobaky
Kosiv rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
36
max.:
36
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
05992
date:
1944.03
site
description
general info
Kobaki
[Ukrainians] robbed and burned Polish farms and murdered 35 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
35
min. 35
max. 35
ref. no:
05703
date:
1944.03.19
site
description
general info
Kobaki
„On March 19, 1944, the murder of Poles by Ukrainian Banderites began. First, they cruelly murdered a forester by the name of Michałowski with knives. The period of horror began […] Every evening at dusk we left our house [in Kobaki] and wandered far into the field […] . We took blankets with us, wrapped ourselves in them and lay down on piles of manure that the peasants had taken away in the fall. In the morning, when we woke up, we were covered in snow. We walked like this every day […] . The rainy days have begun. It was still impossible to sleep in the field. We went to the neighboring village of Rożnów. There was an old barn there […] The next evening we looked for another hiding place and so each time somewhere else” (About 30 Poles died in Kobaki by the UPA).
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Jaskółowska Wanda, „We left our home every evening at dusk”, fragments of the account; in: „KARTA Center”, in: ref. No. AW II/157/ł
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
06268
date:
1944.04.05
site
description
general info
Kobaki
Easter week has come. We heard the Ukrainians saying to each other: „ This year we will sacrifice Polish blood to Poles”. On the evening of Holy Wednesday, my mother again took me and my sister to Ilona's neighbor, so that she would welcome us for the night. And this time she did not refuse to help […] . We just went to sleep and we heard that the bells in the church were ringing, signaling the alarm. The trumpet sounded. Hell has begun. Ukrainian women, even old grandmothers, beat with sticks on the tin roofs of wells and gates, teenagers ran and beat tin pots, other children ran around the streets with knives and bells. Older men were lifting flaming straws on pitchforks and shouting „ Hooray, hooray. Poles murder The Ukrainians”. In this way, they wanted to provoke the anger of those The Ukrainians who were still sympathetic to Poles. It lasted for several hours. In the morning there was silence […] Good Friday has come. Hell, the same thing as on Holy Wednesday happened again. Fortunately, however, we stayed alive […] At the end of April, the Russian partisans arrived at our place. The army immediately followed them. They established an office. It was a little better now.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Jaskółowska Wanda, report fragments; in: KARTA Center, in: ref. No. AW II/157/ł
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
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