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
Koszlaki
Zbaraż pov., Tarnopol voiv.
contemporary
Koshlyaky
Pidvolochysk rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
12
max.:
13
events (incidents)
ref. no:
05881
date:
1944.01–1944.03
site
description
general info
Koszlaki
It was very difficult for me to convince my 87‑year‑old grandmother to tell a story, but a few days ago, during the conversation, I managed to obtain the following information: in 1944 (my grandmother could not give me exact dates) her relatives were murdered by the Banderites: her mother–in–law Katarzyna Ratuszny and her fifteen‑year‑old grandson Jakub Ratuszny (son of Maria Ratuszny) came from the village of Prosowce, Toki parish, Zbaraż district. In the same year, the grandmother's parents were also murdered, the brothers on the mother's side, that is: At the beginning of 1944, Feliks Józiuk, born in 1902 (father), living in the village of Koszlaki at number 161, the Zbaraż commune, and Tomasz and Jan Józiuk (mother's brothers), who lived in also in Koszlaki. The circumstances of the murder are not known to my grandmother, or for reasons which she knows only, she refuses to disclose them. It only reported that they died one day.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Migus Agnieszka — web page: darnokx.no-ip.org [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
09010
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Koszlaki
Between Hołodki and Woroblijówka: „It was very difficult for me to convince my 87‑year‑old grandma to tell a story, but a few days ago, during the conversation, I managed to obtain the following information in 1944 (my grandmother could not give me exact dates) her relatives were murdered by the Bandera followers: Katarzyna Ratuszny and her fifteen‑year‑old grandson Jakub Ratuszny (son of Maria Ratuszny) came from the village of Prosowce, Toki parish, Zbaraż district. In the same year, the grandmother's parents were also murdered, the brothers on the mother's side, that is: At the beginning of 1944, Feliks Józiuk, born in 1902 (father), living in the village of Koszlaki at number 161, the Zbaraż commune, and Tomasz and Jan Józiuk (mother's brothers), who lived in also in Koszlaki. The circumstances of the murder are not known to my grandmother, or for reasons which she knows only, she refuses to disclose them. It only reported that they died one day. A few months after this incident, her mother Barbara Józiuk, born in 1908, who lived in Koszlaki, was murdered. Grandma said that my mother was taken from the village, she was led towards the village of Hołodki and in the forests between Hołodki and Woroblijówka (if I remember correctly) the Banderites took out her eyes and left her tortured. Stefania Józiuk (her husband's sister with some peasant – I quote my grandmother) found her in great secret and took her to their village where she died a few days later. The information was confirmed by my grandmother's brother, Sigismud Józiuk, who was several years younger”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Migus Agnieszka — web page: darnokx.no-ip.org [accessible: 2021.04.11]
Others: „In 1944, Juziuk Teofil and his wife Warwara were murdered. Warwara escaped after the first attack, but unnecessarily returned for things and then they murdered her”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; 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 Komański and Siekierka for the Tarnopol province (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2015, vol. 7
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5 – 6
min. 5
max. 6
ref. no:
08335
date:
1944.11.05
site
description
general info
Koszlaki
Fr Włodzimierz Siekierski. „During the genocide committed by the Ukrainians, called «Volhynia genocide», after all in his parish, when he went to his organist for dinner, he was kidnapped by the Ukrainian genocidal organization OUN / UPA and murdered. The body was not found. The Greek Catholic parish priest of Koszlaki, Fr Teofil Łucyk”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: GTKRK, „Fr Siekierski Włodzimierz”; in: portal: «The White Book». Martyrology of the clergy - Poland. XX century (1914-1989), St Sigismund parish in Słomczyn — web page: www.swzygmunt.knc.pl [accessible: 2020.02.01]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
08588
date:
1944.12.03
site
description
general info
Koszlaki
The Banderites kidnapped Fr Włodzimierz Siekierski, parish vicar, who went missing without a trace. „After all in his parish, when he went to his organist for dinner, he was kidnapped by the genocidal Ukrainian organization OUN / UPA and murdered. The body was not found. The Greek Catholic parish priest of Koszlaki, Fr Teofil Łucyk”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: GTKRK, „Fr Siekierski Włodzimierz”; in: portal: «The White Book». Martyrology of the clergy - Poland. XX century (1914-1989), St Sigismund parish in Słomczyn — web page: www.swzygmunt.knc.pl [accessible: 2020.02.01]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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