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:
Germans and Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
50
max.:
50
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
28
max.:
39
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00096
date:
1943.02.22
site
description
general info
Kostopol
The Ukrainian police under the command of the Germans arrested 50 Poles, who were shot.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – February 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Germans and Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
50
min. 50
max. 50
ref. no:
00931
date:
1943.05
site
description
general info
On the road, the UPA brutally murdered 22‑year‑old Genowefa Weruch, an inhabitant of the village of Mokwin.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – May 1943, Spring 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:
02812
date:
1943.08
site
description
general info
Kostopol
The Ukrainians murdered several Poles escaping from Budki Kudriańskie.
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:
few
min. 4
max. 6
ref. no:
03167
date:
1943.09.23
site
description
general info
Kostopol
The UPA killed 7 Poles while harvesting potatoes.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; 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:
04311
date:
1943
site
description
general info
Kostopol
(in the vicinity)
[The Ukrainians] murdered 4 Poles: a father with a son and 2 women. and: „a Ukrainian, Ganśka, ripped the belly of a pregnant Polish woman, took out the fetus and put it on a stake, and when asked why she did it, she replied that «she was a ‹Polack›»”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siemaszko Władysław, Siemaszko Ewa, „The genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population of Volhynia 1939 - 1945”, in: Warsaw 2000, p. 324
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
04312
date:
1943
site
description
general info
Kostopol
(in the vicinity)
The UPA saw Stanisław Hermaszewski with a saw, and the 40‑year‑old Teofil Cybulski was tied to the wagon and pulled until there was a scrap of man. And in the vicinity of Kostopol, they murdered a dozen or so Poles, including 2 teachers and Antoni Hajdamowicz with an unknown number of Jews whom he was hiding.
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:
a dozen or so + 2
min. 13
max. 21
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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.
- English contemporary name of the site — in accordance with naming conventions used in Google Maps.
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