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
Leszczyny
Dobromil pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Przemyśl cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
1
max.:
1
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
18
max.:
18
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
12048
date:
1945–1946
site
description
general info
Leszczyny
Extract from a statistical study of the OUN regional political clerk on Ukrainian victims of armed formations of the Republic of Poland in the region of the 2nd 'Chłodny Jar' subdivision in District I of the Zakerzonya Region in 1945—1946 […] :
„PRZEMYŚL II (region): […]
16. Leszczyny — 1 […]
Stopover, December 4, 1946, B[ojczu]k”.
source: „Chołodnyj Jar'O. II. Statystyczni dani na deń 30 weresnia 1946”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN Rzeszów, in: Acta OAIPN Rz 072/1, vol. 3, sh. 120
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:
09656
date:
1945.03
site
description
general info
Leszczyny
The Ukrainians murdered 4 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:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
09696
date:
1945.04.01
site
description
general info
Leszczyny
On April 1, in Leszczyny, the Bandera followers (SB‑OUN) hanged the farmer Wasyl Niewiadomski, while placing on his chest a piece of paper with the words „For the betrayal of the Ukrainian nation and denouncing the Polish” militia. Two Poles were also to be murdered during this attack.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Zapałowski Andrzej, „Border on fire”, in: ASPRA-JR Publishing House, History of the Peasant Movement Museum, Warsaw 2016, p. 214 — web page: ptg.edu.pl [accessible: 2021.06.10]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10214
date:
1945.07
site
description
general info
Leszczyny
Jerzy Czabanowski, 21 years old, was taken away. Live in Grąziowa, abducted while returning from Przemyśl.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Zapałowski Andrzej, „Border on fire”, in: ASPRA-JR Publishing House, History of the Peasant Movement Museum, Warsaw 2016, p. 215 — web page: ptg.edu.pl [accessible: 2021.06.10]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10351
date:
1945.10.08
site
description
general info
Leszczyny
On October 8, 1945, in the forest near Leszczyn, that is 2 km from Kalwaria Pacławska, the Bandera followers shelled a Polish sub–unit. One officer was injured and one horse was killed. According to other sources in the Przemyśl county, Stanisław Gaweł, 25, and the following soldiers from 30 pp. Died on that day: lat. Julian Drożdżewicz, s. Józefa, b. 1922 in Sypień, head Bronisław Banasik, sister Helena, born 1922 in Rynia, Cpl. Kazimierz Gawdziś, s. Dominika, b. 1923 in Mazury, Paweł Gaweł, sister of Szymon, b. 1920 in Pielnia, Sgt. Aleksander Kołodko, sister Aleksandra, born in 1921 in Horoszcz, lat Romuald Lekczyk, sister Wincentego, born in 1921 in Głuchów, Cpl. Piotr Rudmiczuk, s. Jana, b. 1925 in Morsy, Cpl. Jan Skaradziński, sister Franciszka, born on 1921 in Kiszelnice, family Olgierd Waśkiewicz, father Jakub, born 1908 in Olszanica, Leon Wojciechowski p. Jana, b. 1924 in Krzyszków. Due to the fact that on that day there were no other clashes in the county, it can be assumed that the above–mentioned victims died in this clash.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Zapałowski Andrzej, „Border on fire”, in: ASPRA-JR Publishing House, History of the Peasant Movement Museum, Warsaw 2016, p. 218—219 — web page: ptg.edu.pl [accessible: 2021.06.10]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
11
min. 11
max. 11
ref. no:
11598
date:
1947.05
site
description
general info
Leszczyny
„In May in Leszczyny, Julia Hamelak died in unexplained circumstances (she probably went to the forest to look for her fiancé who had been kidnapped by the UPA)”.
source: Zapałowski Andrzej, „Border on fire”, in: ASPRA-JR Publishing House, History of the Peasant Movement Museum, Warsaw 2016, p. 263 — web page: ptg.edu.pl [accessible: 2021.06.10]
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1947”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.03.02]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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