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
Kuźmina
Dobromil pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Przemyśl cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
33
max.:
116
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
07594
date:
1944.07.14
site
description
general info
Kuźmina
(forester's lodge)
The gamekeeper Jan Januszczak and his son were murdered in the forest by the UPA. The son's name was Stanisław.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Orłowski Edward, „Foresters who died during the war and persecution in 1938-1949 in Eastern Lesser Poland and the post-war Rzeszów region”; in: Regional Directorate of State Forests in Krosno — web page: www.krosno.lasy.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.01.29]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
10379
date:
1945.10.22–1945.10.23
site
description
general info
Kuźmina
UPA from sotnya „Burłaki” killed 18 Poles: 8 civilians and 10 soldiers of the Polish Army. Others (including Ukrainian sources) give the date 22 October and the number of victims: 90 civilian Poles and 11 soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces, moreover, 100 people were injured and the village was burnt.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
18 – 101
min. 18
max. 101
ref. no:
10415
date:
1945.11.02
site
description
general info
Kuźmina
UPA from the sotnya „Hromenka” murdered 11 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
11
min. 11
max. 11
ref. no:
11293
date:
1946.10.13
site
description
general info
Kuźmina
Michał Zarzycki, buried in Kuźmin, was murdered by the UPA at the forester's house (others state the date of murder as October 5, 1946).
source: Moskaluk Wojciech, „The crime of Ukrainian nationalists on Polish foresters in 1939—1947 in the south-eastern borderlands of the Second Polish Republic”; in: Polish State Forest, in: Świętoszów, 15.V.2015 — web page: swietoszow.wroclaw.lasy.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.26]
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: www.wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.26]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11450
date:
1946
site
description
general info
Kuźmina
In the village of Kuźmina, the gamekeeper, Michał Zarzycki, was murdered by [the UPA] at his house, buried in Kuźmin.
source: Orłowski Edward, „Foresters who died during the war and persecution in 1938-1949 in Eastern Lesser Poland and the post-war Rzeszów region”; in: Regional Directorate of State Forests in Krosno — web page: www.krosno.lasy.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.01.29]
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1946 and in 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.28]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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EXPLANATIONs
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- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
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