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.:
36
max.:
36
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
03949
date:
1943.12.24
site
description
general info
Kołtów
On Christmas Eve, the UPA murdered 7 Polish families during the Christmas Eve supper, 35 Poles. „In the evening, with a strong blizzard, we went to Kotłów. There were ten of us. We found the murdered in the school building. Seven families: women, children, old people and young men. I counted thirty–five. The sight was macabre: the long table covered with Christmas Eve dishes was stained with blood. I especially remember the wafer soaked with blood. The heads of some of the murdered were stuck in bowls of food […] Miraculously, we learned that the common Christmas Eve evening was to be a farewell evening: all murdered people were supposed to leave the village and move to the city right after Christmas […] Young girls were murdered there, and how cruelly. one was hanged by the hair on the door and her belly was ripped open, on the other hand, her hands were nailed to the table, and her feet were nailed to the floor. Or that little boy. hanged by the genitals on the” handle.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Sikorski Franciszek, „Iwa the green”, in: Wroclaw 1984, p. 189—190, 202
It was assumed that it was Kołtów in the area of Zolochiv.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: GTKRK – own archives
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
35
min. 35
max. 35
ref. no:
07398
date:
1944.03–1944.06
(spring)
site
description
general info
Kołtów
After escaping from Szyszkowce – Kisielówka, he was murdered by relatives in Koltów in the spring of 1945, while working in the field, Michał Głuszka.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Świętojański Czesław, Wiśniewski Aleksander, „List of murdered in Podkamień (and its vicinity) by the UPA in 1943—1945.”; in: portal: Podkamień n. Brody, in: 10.05.2014 — web page: www.podkamien.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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