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
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
74
max.:
131
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
01992
date:
1943.07.24
site
description
general info
Lityń
The local Ukrainians murdered a young Polish couple: Karolina Słowik and her husband.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; 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:
02587
date:
1943.08.26
site
description
general info
Lityń
(in the vicinity)
The Ukrainians murdered two Poles, brothers Stanisław and Bolesław Marianski, who were riding in a cart, the cart with horses was robbed by the Ukrainians from Lityń.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „The 75th anniversary of the genocide – August and the summer of 1943”; 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:
02626
date:
1943.08.29
site
description
general info
Lityń
Orthodox feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: they murdered 20 Poles; they stabbed the mother of two sons murdered three days earlier and their stepfather; there were 3 other bodies in the pit with their bodies, and the bodies of 15 people below.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „The 75th anniversary of the genocide – August and the summer of 1943”; 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:
02947
date:
1943.09.01–1943.09.02
site
description
general info
Lityń
The UPA massacred at least 44 Poles using various tools.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
at least 44
min. 44
max. 44
ref. no:
03253
date:
1943.09
site
description
general info
Lityń
[The Ukrainians] murdered 4 Poles in the forest. Others: „At the beginning of September 1943, 9 km from Zasmyki, the Bandera followers murdered many families from the Polish service of Count Sumowski in Lityń. Only a few out of 15 families reached Zasmyki. The remaining members were smashed as usual with axes, scythes and forks”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Koprowski Marek A.
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4 – many families
min. 4
max. 54
ref. no:
03898
date:
1943.09–1943.12
(autumn)
site
description
general info
Lityń
The Home Army AK „Hawk” patrol in the Lithuanian forest came across UPAs when they were murdering Poles who had been stripped naked, some of them had already been killed.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of genocide – November and fall of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
at least few
min. 2
max. 9
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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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