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
Kowalówka
Buczacz pov., Tarnopol voiv.
contemporary
Kovalivka
Monastyryska rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
151
max.:
152
Perpetrators:
Germans and Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
14
max.:
14
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
02813
date:
1943.08
site
description
general info
Near the road Kowalówka – Olesza, county Buczacz, in the forest, a massacred body of a kidnapped teacher named Kaczkowski was found buried up to the neck.
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]
source: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 158
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
03056
date:
1943.09.17
site
description
general info
Kowalówka
As a result of denunciation by Ukrainian policemen, the Germans arrested 17 Poles, including 2 priests, of whom 11 were killed.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Germans and Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
11
min. 11
max. 11
ref. no:
03688
date:
1943.11.15
site
description
general info
Kowalówka
The following were murdered by the Banderites: the parish priest, Fr Bieńko Piotr and Fr Peruck Leon.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of genocide – November and fall of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
Others (Komański…, p. 158): they were arrested as a result of a denunciation by the Ukrainian police on September 17, 1943, together with other 15 Poles, and died in prison (Rev. Bieńko died of typhus, Rev. Perucki was shot).
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of genocide – November and fall of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 158
perpetrators
Germans and Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
03856
date:
1943.12.17
site
description
general info
Kowalówka
Fr Piotr Bieńko, parish priest of the Kowalówka parish in the Buczacz district, Tarnopol voivodship, arrested on December 17, 1943 by the Gestapo as a result of denunciation by the Ukrainian police; died in prison in Chortkiv of typhus.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siemaszko Ewa, „Catholic priests murdered in 1939—1946 by the Ukrainian nationalists (OUN thugs, UPA thugs/ Banderites, Ukrainian policemen and Ukrainians serving in SS-Galizien division) on the territories of pre-war Volhynia, Lviv, Stanislaviv, Ternopil, Polesya and Lublin voivodships”; in: „Recollections of those who survived”, portal: Volhynia of our forebearers — web page: www.nawolyniu.pl [accessible: 2020.02.01]
perpetrators
Germans and Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
09012
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Kowalówka
At the beginning of 1944, the UPA murdered over 100 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
more than 100
min. 101
max. 101
ref. no:
05303
date:
1944.02
site
description
general info
Kowalówka
The Ukrainians murdered 50 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kubów Władysław, „Terrorism in Podolia”, in: Warsaw 2003
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
50
min. 50
max. 50
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