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
Latacz
Zaleszczyki pov., Tarnopol voiv.
contemporary
Lytyachi
Zalishchyky rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
177
max.:
187
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
01529
date:
1943.07.05
site
description
general info
Latacz
On July 5, 1943, a Pole NN guard was murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; 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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
03835
date:
1943.12.12–1943.12.13
site
description
general info
Latacz
On 12/13 December, an armed gang in Latacz (Zaleszczyki district) attacked the house of the blacksmith Domański at night and murdered the whole family, six people in total.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1943, December 16 - Letter from PolKO Czortków to the RGO in Krakow regarding further attacks on the Polish population and requests for help for the victims”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 81—82
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
03840
date:
1943.12.14
site
description
general info
Latacz
The Ukrainians robbed and burned 3 Polish farms and murdered 9 Poles, including the 6–person Karpiak family. The following died: Maria Karpiak, aged 42, sons – Józef, 23, Władysław, 18 and Sigismud, 6, and their daughters Genowefa, 20 and Zofia, 8, her husband and father, Stanisław Karpiak, survived.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
9
min. 9
max. 9
ref. no:
07841
date:
1944.07.01–1944.08.31
site
description
general info
Latacz
In the village of Latacz nad Dnestrem near Żnibród, county Buczacz nailed a Pole, Jędzuch Kindra, a village shepherd, to the willow, and then shot him with a burst of automatic machine.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Adamski Jan, „Visit”, in: Krakow 1975, p. 102—103
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
09219
date:
1945.01.05
site
description
general info
Latacz
The UPA murdered 80 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Hryciuk Grzegorz, „UPA actions against Poles after the re-occupation of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Red Army in 1944”; in: Libionka Dariusz, Motyka Grzegorz (ed.), „Anti-Polish operation of the OUN-UPA 1943-1944. Facts and interpretations”, State Archive of Lviv Oblast, in: DALO, 5001/2/32, Warsaw 2002, sh. 74
Others: On the night of January 15/16, 1945, during the second Soviet occupation, UPA units killed 74 to 90 Poles in Latacz and injured 60.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
80
min. 80
max. 80
ref. no:
09245
date:
1945.01.15
site
description
general info
Latacz
The Banderites robbed and burned Polish farms at night and murdered 90 Poles, mainly women, children and the elderly, and 60 people were injured. W. Kubów reports that 80 people died, including 10 people with unknown surnames. Died: Bigulak Maria, 68, Błażenko Michał, 41, Aniela, 38, Maria, 15, Janusz, 2, Malwina, 75, Maria, 30, Bobrowska Stefania, 19, Czernicki Andrzej, 71, Aniela aged 46, Stanisław aged 46, Domańska Józefa, Franciszek, Józef, Anna, Władysław aged 62, Eugeniusz aged 5, Hostyńska Stefania aged 41, Karpiak Julia, Teresa aged 72, Korczyńska Zofia aged 65, Maria, 35, Kowalczuk, Jan, 9, Maślinkiewicz Rozalia, Michalski, Michał, 52, Janina, 20, Bronisława, 13, Jan, 5, Franciszek, 14, Mikietyn, Helena, 28, Michał, 1, Parfin Julia, Półchłopek Kazimierz, 24, Sandecki Józef, Antonina, Maria, Sabina, Maria, 48, Antoni, 51, Józefa, 40, Sochacki, Michał, 16, Maria, 12, Helena, 17, Julia, 50, Stanisław, 60, Anna, 50, Józef, 72, Leonty, 67, Storożyńska Michalina aged 63, Kazimierza aged 13, Władysław aged 16, Suchowij Helena, Józef, Maria, Syniecka Aniela aged 67, Klementyna aged 16, Bronisław aged 14, Franciszek aged 11, Szydłowska Julia, Zofia, Julia II, 31, Tresel Maria, 35, Antoni, 14, Tuligłowska Aniela, 30, Karolina, 30, Urban Jan, 70, Julia, 65, Wojciechowski Tadeusz, 64, Zawadzka Antonina, 73, NN. Stefania age 71. Szydłowska Julia, Zofia, Julia II, 31, Tresel Maria, 35, Antoni, 14, Tuligłowska Aniela, 30, Karolina, 30, Urban Jan, 70, Julia, 65, Wojciechowski Tadeusz, 64, Zawadzka Antonina, age 73, NN. Stefania age 71. Szydłowska Julia, Zofia, Julia II, 31, Tresel Maria, 35, Antoni, 14, Tuligłowska Aniela, 30, Karolina, 30, Urban Jan, 70, Julia, 65, Wojciechowski Tadeusz, 64, Zawadzka Antonina, age 73, NN. Stefania age 71.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; 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:
80 – 90
min. 80
max. 90
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