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.:
46
max.:
98
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04306
date:
1943
site
description
general info
Korczów
Ukrainian policemen arrested, tortured and murdered Jan Nagórny.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 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:
04079
date:
1943.12
site
description
general info
Korczów
Ukrainian policemen arrested Jan Nagórny, who went missing without a trace, they tortured his mother and demolished his house.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 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:
05999
date:
1944.03
site
description
general info
Korczów
The Ukrainians murdered 10 people: 8 Poles and a Jewish woman with her daughter; They tied up 4 Poles and burned them alive in a barn.
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:
10
min. 10
max. 10
ref. no:
05598
date:
1944.03.12
site
description
general info
Korczów
The Ukrainians murdered 7 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:
7
min. 7
max. 7
ref. no:
05647
date:
1944.03.15
site
description
general info
Korczów
The Ukrainians murdered 10 Poles, including a mother and a daughter, and 2 Jewish women, a mother and a daughter.
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:
10 – 12
min. 10
max. 12
ref. no:
05783
date:
1944.03.25
site
description
general info
Korczów
„They were burned alive by UPA gangs.” – 9 Poles, moreover 2 Poles, 4 The Ukrainians and 2 Jews were shot by Ukrainian policemen.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Konieczny Zdzisław, „Polish-Ukrainian relations in what is now Poland in the years 1918-1947, Wrocław 2006”, in: , p. 178
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
17
min. 17
max. 17
ref. no:
11013
date:
1946.05.12
site
description
general info
On the railway route Uchnów – Korczów, poviat Lubaczów: „On May 12, 1946, the UPA 'Shum' gang attacked railroad transport with soldiers on board in the Uchnów – Korczów, poviat Lubaczów (now Biłgoraj poviat) section of the railway line. As a result of shots and planted mines, a train consisting of 50 wagons was derailed, with about 50 soldiers of the Polish Army killed and several dozen injured. All 50 wagons were burned”. Edward Prus quotes „List of criminal acts committed by UPA gangs in 1944‑1947”, compiled at the 'C' Department of the Provincial Office of Internal Affairs in Rzeszów. In this „List” attacks on the Uchnów (Dachnów) railway station, poviat Lubaczów, where about 30 soldiers of the Polish Army were to die on April 24, 1946, and on May 12, 1946, were mentioned.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1946 and Spring of 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
source: Prus Edward, „Operation "Vistula"”, in: ed. IV, Wroclaw 2006, p. 280—281
According to official data, the raid on the Uhniv railway station took place on April 21, 1946 and 2 Polish Army WP soldiers wer killed then and 3 were wounded.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1946 and Spring of 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.06.10]
source: Motyka Grzegorz, „So it was in Bieszczady. Polish-Ukrainian battles in 1943-1948.”, in: Volumen Publishing House, Warsaw 1999, Warsaw 1999, p. 343
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
50
min. 50
max. 50
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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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