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
Kosmacz
Kołomyja pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Kosmach
Kosiv rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
43
max.:
43
events (incidents)
ref. no:
02199
date:
1943.07
site
description
general info
Kosmacz
At the beginning of July 1943, Kosmacz district, Kołomyja. Killed: Kuźmińska Rozalia, wife of an engineer and her daughter Ewa, age 5; Engr. Zmigrodzki and his daughter.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, July 17 - Letter from PolKO in Stanisławów to the Director of RGO in Kraków containing a personal list of people abducted and murdered from the beginning of the attacks, from September 1943 to July 15, 1944”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 349—373
In July 1943, Klimaszewski (Kliszewski?) Was murdered. Leon forest clerk; Żmijewski with his family: 3 people.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; 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
ref. no:
01965
date:
1943.07.21
site
description
general info
Kosmacz
The Banderites murdered 5 Poles, including Engr. Alojzy Żmigrodzkiego with his 5‑year‑old daughter Krystyna.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
01990
date:
1943.07.24
site
description
general info
Kosmacz
The Ukrainians murdered the Polish Klisowski family of six. Others: „In the nearby Kosmacz: the wife of Ing. Kuźmiński with his 4‑year‑old daughter, Engr. Żmigrodzki, along with his 9‑year‑old daughter (22.VII.1943) and the rest of the family, were killed in Kosmacz, Mr. Klisowski and his entire family (the bodies of 6 people were found in a forest rift), during an attack on the workers of the oil mine in Kosmacz, Ruthenian bandits raped women and girls, a professor of the Budzianowski” gymnasium was killed.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: web page: www.szeszory.3-2-1.pl [accessible: 2010.01.01]
On 24 VII. br. in Szeszory, the parish priest, Fr Grzesiowski, who had a rope tied around his neck and was dragged on him for a long time until he finished, suffocated. At that time, the doctor, Dr. Kaliniewicz, and then, having been poured with gasoline, set on fire.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1943, October - Collection of reports on Ukrainian attacks in Eastern Lesser Poland, registered by the RGO in Lviv”; in: Central Archives of Modern Records, in: No. 47, p. 5—11, 13—15
August 9, 1943. It was reported in the Sunday newspaper that in Pistyń, where Aunt Staś is, in the last days of July, the following died a martyr: 1. pastor of Rome. in Pistyń, priest Józef Grzesiowski, 2. Dr. Kaliniewicz former director of the hospital in Kołomyja, living in Pistyń, 3. Kuźmińska Rozalia, 4. Engr. with her daughter, 5. Engr. Alojzy Zmygrodzki with his daughter and Budzianowski.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Danyluk-Żabska Danuta Krystyna, „Danusia's diaries” — web page: www.brodzianie.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
A little later, a certain Klisowski was abducted to the forest and then murdered with his whole family (6 people) from Kosmacz. The body was found in a forest chasm. During the attack on the workers of the oil mine in Kosmacz, women and girls were raped by bandits.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1943, October - Collection of reports on Ukrainian attacks in Eastern Lesser Poland, registered by the RGO in Lviv”; in: Central Archives of Modern Records, in: No. 47, p. 5—11, 13—15
Pistyń On the same night of July 25–26, 1943, the Ruthenians abducted Fr Józef Grzesiowski, before he was killed, was brutally tortured. Both murders were described in the account of Fr Eugeniusz Węgrzyn.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: web page: www.szeszory.3-2-1.pl [accessible: 2010.01.01]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
ref. no:
02811
date:
1943.08
site
description
general info
Kosmacz
The Ukrainians murdered 26 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „The 75th anniversary of the genocide – August and the summer of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
26
min. 26
max. 26
ref. no:
03247
date:
1943.09
site
description
general info
Kosmacz
At the beginning of September 1943, the following were kidnapped: Kozubski [FNU], worker; Nowak [FNU], a train driver with his wife; Purecki – mine manager.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; 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
In Kosmacz [Kosów] in the first days of September, Purecki, the mine manager, Nowak, the engine driver and his wife, Kozubski, a worker – all disappeared.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1943, September 13 - Pol. KO in Stanisławów to the RGO Delegate in Lviv. It concerns the murders and abductions of Poles in Stanisławowski”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 273—275
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
02958
date:
1943.09.03
site
description
general info
Kosmacz
On September 3, 43 they were murdered: 1–8. Kornecki with his wife; Szubrycht, the director of the mine; Wasylkowski mine fitter with his family: 5 people.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; 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
On 3. IX. br. on 4. IX. br. at night in Kosmacz [Nadwórna] Nowak and his wife, Kornecki with his wife, Szubrykt, dir. mine, Wasylkowski mine fitter, his wife and 3 children, and their houses were robbed.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1943, September 8 - Letter from PolKO in Kołomyja to the RGO Delegate in Lviv regarding attacks and murders committed on Poles in the district”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 183—184
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
8
min. 8
max. 8
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