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
Leszczowate
Lesko pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Bieszczady cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
98
max.:
139
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
18
max.:
18
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
06763
date:
1944.04
site
description
general info
Leszczowate
The Ukrainians murdered 29 Poles.
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:
29
min. 29
max. 29
ref. no:
07657
date:
1944.07.29
site
description
general info
Leszczowate
The UPA attacked the court, where the bodies of the local landowner and owner, Jan Garsching, 35, and his wife Irena, 22, were tortured, murdered and desecrated.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Jan Lucjan Wyciślak, „UPA activities - victims and perpetrators” — web page: www.rodaknet.com [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
07660
date:
1944.07.30
site
description
general info
Leszczowate
[The Ukrainians] murdered 20 Poles. „Tortured, murdered and desecrated corpses: Kuźmiński Feliks, Kuźmińska Katarzyna, Kuźmińska Maria, Kuźmińska Anna, Kuźmiński Stanisław, Zdziebko Maria, Zdziebko Teres, Zdziebko Kazimierz (9), Zdziebko Sigismud (5), Zdziebko Józef (2), Zdziebko Stanisław (2 years old), Stefanow Antoni, Stefanow Józefa, Stefanow Julia, Stefanow Zofia, Johan Jan, Czelny Stanisław, Pysulak Teodor. The inhabitants of Leszczowaty, Wańkowa, and Jureczkowa participated in the murder — as Ukrainian policemen under the command of Worony / according to the protocol written by the parish priest, Rev. Adam Czepek, source MMJ, KsWP, pp. 308 NO. 1998, no. 29 pp. 23 /”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Jan Lucjan Wyciślak, „UPA activities - victims and perpetrators” — web page: www.rodaknet.com [accessible: 2021.04.11]
Among the murdered there were 7 children aged 2 to 16, 6 women (including 18, 20, 21 and 22) and 7 men.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
20
min. 20
max. 20
ref. no:
07664
date:
1944.07.30
site
description
general info
Konieczny say that on July 30, 54 Poles and a Ukrainian, a Pole's wife, were murdered in the attacks on the villages of Leszczowate, Ropienka, Brelików and Wańkowa. Whereas Sz. Siekierka, H. Komański and K. Bulzacki document the murder of 56 Poles in the same places on the same day.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
54
min. 54
max. 54
ref. no:
08059
date:
1944.09
site
description
general info
Leszczowate
The Ukrainians murdered 29 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
29
min. 29
max. 29
ref. no:
09959
date:
1945.05.17
site
description
general info
Leszczowate
[The Ukrainians] kidnapped the Leszczowate – Ropienka family from the road.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; 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:
10232
date:
1945.08.08
site
description
general info
Leszczowate
The UPA murdered Jan Kuźmiński, 23.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10392
date:
1945.10.28
site
description
general info
Leszczowate
The UPA murdered Jan Telesz.
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
12047
date:
1946
site
description
general info
Leszczowate
Excerpt from the statistical study of the OUN regional political clerk on the Ukrainian victims of the armed formations of the Republic of Poland in the area of the 5th 'Chłodny Jar' district in the 1st District of the Zakerzonya Region: […]
„5. Liszczowate — 15 […]
Stopover, December 15, 1946, H‑m”
source: „Chołodnyj Jar'O. V. Statystyczni dani na deń 30 weresnia 1946”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 3, sh. 122
source: Huk Bogdan with a group of friends, „Murders of the Ukrainian population 1944-1947”; in: portal: Ruthenian apocrypha — web page: www.apokryfruski.org [accessible: 2021.09.30]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
15
min. 15
max. 15
ref. no:
12046
date:
1946.04
site
description
general info
Leszczowate
Excerpt from the statistical study by NN 'Hałka' concerning the murders of 2 Ukrainians from Leszczowate by PUBP in Lesko:
„38. Name of the village: Leszczowate; surname and first name: Wowczok Stanisław; age: 24; date of arrest: April 1946; how long incarcerated: murdered […]
40. Name of the village: Leszczowate; surname and first name: Ołeński Mychajło; age: 37; date of arrest: April 1946; how long incarcerated: murdered”.
source: „2 IV 1946”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 33, sh. 208
source: Huk Bogdan with a group of friends, „Murders of the Ukrainian population 1944-1947”; in: portal: Ruthenian apocrypha — web page: www.apokryfruski.org [accessible: 2021.09.30]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
12045
date:
1946.04.19
site
description
general info
Leszczowate
Excerpt from the situational report of the political clerk of the OUN 'Chłodny Jar' district, Petr Kawuzy 'Taras', on the murder of a Ukrainian from Leszczowate by Polish Army soldiers:
„On April 19, 1946, at 2 am, 120 soldiers of the Polish Army arrived in the village of Leszczowate […] They entered, among others to the house of Stepan Romanov […] There were 2 families in this house, numbering 13 people […] The soldiers took the host, Stepan Romanov, and ordered him to climb the ladder to the attic, followed by the soldiers. At that moment they heard a voice:
— «Stij, ruky weerch!».
The soldiers jumped out and ordered the landlord to take things out of the house because they would be smoking. Then they fired a burst of machine gun fire and lit the house. Two of the host's daughters were sleeping in the attic, hearing the shots, they immediately jumped home, and the host's two sons, Wasyl and Saszko, also sleeping in the attic, jumped down onto the field, and then into the yard. There Vasyl rushed to save the horse and led him about 80 m and was stopped by one soldier. Started to run away. The soldier fired a burst of automaton and injured him. The soldiers ran up and killed him with a pistol”.
source: „Wisti z terenu [za marzec-kwiecień 1946]”; in: Poticzny P. J., Łyko I. (ed,), „Litopys UPA”, in: Toronto-Lviv 2002, vol. 34: „Lemkivshchyna and Peremyszczyna. Political reports (Documents)”, p. 477, in: orig. Ukrainian
source: Huk Bogdan with a group of friends, „Murders of the Ukrainian population 1944-1947”; in: portal: Ruthenian apocrypha — web page: www.apokryfruski.org [accessible: 2021.09.30]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11219
date:
1946.08.08
site
description
general info
Leszczowate
The UPA murdered Jan Kuźmiński, 23.
source: Jan Lucjan Wyciślak, „UPA activities - victims and perpetrators” — web page: www.rodaknet.com [accessible: 2021.04.11]
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.25]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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