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
Leopoldów
Hrubieszów pov., Lublin voiv.
contemporary
Hrubieszów cou., Lublin voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Germans and Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
5
max.:
5
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
13
max.:
13
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04339
date:
1943
site
description
general info
Leopoldów
In the course of the investigation, it was established that in 1943, at an unspecified time, a group of German gendarmes with the Ukrainian police came to Leopoldów in the evening. For unknown reasons, 5 people were shot in the manor house, including 3 men and 2 women, who had not managed to escape from the gendarmes. As it was possible to establish, all the shot people were of Polish nationality.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Lublin, in: ref. No. S 82/11/Zn
perpetrators
Germans and Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
05764
date:
1944.03.24
site
description
general info
Leopoldów
On March 24, 1944, around 5 p.m., a group of young Ukrainian men, dressed in civilian clothes and armed with rifles, came from the side of the village of Podhorce […] During the attack, a total of 13 people were killed, mostly with firearms, in most of the elderly and women, family members of local farm workers. At least one of the victims was bayoneted. After some time, the attackers withdrew.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „The investigation into the crime of genocide committed in order to destroy a Polish national group, on March 24, 1944, in the town of Leopoldów, Lublin voivodeship, involving the murders of 13 civilians of Polish nationality by firing firearms at them and inflicting fatal blows bayonet by Ukrainian nationalists”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN, in: ref. No. S 18/12/Zi — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2022.02.28]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
13
min. 13
max. 13
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EXPLANATIONs
- Lack of info about the perpetrators in the description of a given event (Incident) indicates that the blame should be attributed to the perpetrators listed in general info section.
- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
- English contemporary name of the site — in accordance with naming conventions used in Google Maps.
- Contemporary regional info about the site — if in Ukraine than in accordance to administrative structure of Ukraine valid till 2020.
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