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
Ludwikówka
Dubno pov., Volhynian voiv.
contemporary
Mlyniv rai., Rivne obl., Ukraine
general info
locality non—existent
Murders
Perpetrators:
Germans and Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
172
max.:
172
events (incidents)
ref. no:
01774
date:
1943.07.13
site
description
general info
Ludwikówka
Unable to destroy this Polish colony, the Ukrainians informed the Germans that there were Jews and Soviet partisans here, as a result of which the colony was pacified with the participation of the Germans (SS and Vlasovtsy) and the Ukrainian police, in which 172 Poles were killed, including 75 boys and men burned alive. „Please report my mother's brother, Feliks Kucharski, an inhabitant of Młynów, Dubno county, to the list of execution victims in the colony of Ludwikówka on July 13, 1943. At the time of his death, he was 26 years old. On the day of pacification, he came to Ludwikówka in a horse–drawn cart, sent there to transport workers from Młynów to Ludwikówka on the order of the German farmer with whom he was forced to work. The victims were already being carried away on the spot, although the uncle had documents confirming his identity, he was not allowed to leave, recognizing as true the words of a Ukrainian by name unknown to us, who claimed that Feliks was a different person, and indicated a random man. Uncle was murdered on July 13, 1943 along with other victims and burned in a barn. Instead of Feliks Kucharski, another man returned to Młynów in a wagon. Someone from Ludwikówka survived by accident. Feliks's family – father, mother and sister recognized the horses and the cart. They raised the alarm that someone else had returned instead of Felix. The German host also confirmed that the person who returned from Ludwikówka was not Feliks Kucharski. The father of the murdered Feliks, and my grandfather Stanisław Kucharski, went to Ludwikówka to look for his son among the victims. He found his burned corpse among the others in the wreckage of the barn. He recognized it by the surviving fragment of a handkerchief with the initials FK that Felix had in his pocket, he was lying on his side when he died. Uncle was buried with the people with whom he died in a common grave. Feliks Kucharski served in the Volhynian Lancers Regiment (unfortunately, I do not know the regiment number). In his family relationship, he was remembered as a noble and good man. He was a horse lover and expert. He orphaned his daughter, Irena Kucharska, who died of pneumonia shortly after. His wife, Anastasia, of Ukrainian origin, stopped being in touch with our family after her husband's death. Feliks Kucharski was the s/o Stanisław Kucharski and Marianna Kucharska née Sierpina, who lived in Młynów before the repatriation. The living relatives of the deceased in a straight line are: me and sister Elżbieta, d/o Feliks's younger sister – Stanisława Michałek, nee Kucharska”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Socha Mirosława; in: portal: stankiewicze.com — web page: www.stankiewicze.com [accessible: 2016.05.17]
perpetrators
Germans and Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
172
min. 172
max. 172
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