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 (Freifeld)
Lubaczów pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Lubaczów cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
92
max.:
92
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
06598
date:
1944.04.28–1944.04.29
site
description
general info
Kowalówka (Freifeld)
The Ukrainians murdered 20 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Węgierski Jerzy Julian; in: „WiN Historical Journals”, in: No. 9/1996
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
20
min. 20
max. 20
ref. no:
06607
date:
1944.04.29
site
description
general info
Kowalówka (Freifeld)
The Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles, including a woman.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
06621
date:
1944.04.30
site
description
general info
Kowalówka (Freifeld)
(in the vicinity)
On that day, the UPA unit shot 16 Poles in the forest, including two children. Most of the Polish buildings were burned down.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Matusz Józef, „Many rivers still to cross”; in: „Rzeczpospolita”, in: September 8, 2009
Sz. Siekierka, H. Komański, and K. Bulzacki. Do not mention this crime.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
16
min. 16
max. 16
ref. no:
07005
date:
1944.04.30–1944.05.07
site
description
general info
Kowalówka (Freifeld)
The Ukrainians murdered 27 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
27
min. 27
max. 27
ref. no:
07045
date:
1944.05.13
site
description
general info
Kowalówka (Freifeld)
The UPA from the „Zaliźniak” sotnye murdered 9 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Motyka Grzegorz, „Ukrainian guerrilla 1942-1960”, in: Warsaw 2006, p. 397
On May 13, 44 the same sotnya („Mesnyky” – Stanislaus Żurek's footnote) destroyed the Polish colony of Freifeld. At the same time, 9 Polish colonists were liquidated.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „The report of the Ukrainian underground from May 1944 concerning anti-Polish actions”; in: „Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s”, in: Warsaw-Kiev 2005, vol. 4, part 2, p. 159 — web page: zbrodniawolynska.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
9
min. 9
max. 9
ref. no:
07092
date:
1944.05.20
site
description
general info
Kowalówka (Freifeld)
The UPA murdered 2 Polish women.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
09011
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Kowalówka (Freifeld)
In 1944, the following people murdered: Michał Żukowicz, 42 born. 1902, Karol Wilhelm, Piotr Wilhelm, Błażej Majewski, Anna Meder with three children, Franciszek Mały, Władysław Wilhelm, Rudolf Weber, Jan Wilhelm, Józef Gielaszka, Michał Żukowicz, Tomasz Kudyba, and Błażej Majewski from Żukowo–Kudyba.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Decision to discontinue the investigation”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Opole, in: ref. No. S 37.2013.Zi, December 21, 2018 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
16
min. 16
max. 16
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