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:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
50
max.:
79
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
07764
date:
1944.08.12
site
description
general info
Kurzany
The Bandera followers murdered 8 Polish families of at least 24 people on the estate and burned 70 Polish farms in the village and murdered 20 Poles, including 10 children; at least 44 Poles in total; in this town, the Home Army intelligence received an order from the UPA command: „to expedite the liquidation of Poles, to cut down the trunk, burn purely Polish villages, mixed villages – to destroy only the Polish population”.
Others: Grzegorz Hryciak: UPA actions against Poles after the re–occupation of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Red army in 1944. In: anti–Polish action of the OUN–UPA 1943 – 1944. Facts and interpretations. Warsaw 2002, states: „On August 15 (according to other data on August 14) 1944, the Ukrainian «self–defense unit» burned down the village of Kurzany (Brzeżany county) and the nearby farm, where a collective farm was organized. Of the 33 households, 31 were burned, and fifteen people died, including five women”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: State Archive of Lviv Oblast, in: DALO, P—3/1/62, sh. 111
source: Central State Archives of Social Organizations of Ukraine, in: No. 3833/1/156, sh. 98
According to other data, more than 70 buildings were to be burned down, and about 20 people, including children, were killed.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Central State Archives of Social Organizations of Ukraine, in: No. 1/23/919, sh. 27, 29
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
15 – 44
min. 15
max. 44
ref. no:
09488
date:
1945.03.03
site
description
general info
Kurzany
The Ukrainians murdered 35 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
35
min. 35
max. 35
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