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
Majdan Jezierski
Łuck pov., Volhynian voiv.
contemporary
Kivertsi rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
general info
locality non—existent
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
5
max.:
5
events (incidents)
ref. no:
11168
date:
1943.07
site
description
general info
Majdan Jezierski
„The area was dangerous everywhere, and yet the survivors sheltering in Przebraż tried to regain their lost property. Often they did not return to their homes because they were murdered. The patrol in the strength of the 4th Company platoon was not always able to come to the rescue.
That's what happened to the family from the colony of Majdan Jezierski (6 km from Przebraż). Their house, which was not completely burned, survived — so they went to get the rest of their property and did not return.
The tragic sight we found stunned everyone. A few hens in the yard, a dog huddled in a kennel, and stolen property on a cart. The farm was owned by the Dziadkowski family. The surprised attackers with their belongings did not manage to leave [before our arrival].
Terrible scenery. Halfway, on the threshold of the house and in the hall, in a pool of blood with his head cut open with an ax, the farmer, about 50 years old. Next to the well, in a pool of blood, his murdered son, about 12 years old was lying (they did not manage to throw him into the well). We were all paralyzed by a terrible sight — the host's wife, about 45 years old, with a ripped belly was placed on the wall of the burned hall, and a newborn baby at her feet, in a pool of blood — she was heavily pregnant.
This sight is still haunting me, it turned into an indescribable psychological trauma, despite the 65 years that passed since that event, I am not able to forget it — the image returns.
With great tension, under stress, and in danger of an attack, we unfastened the body of a suspended woman and finally, together with the baby, we placed them on a one—horse carriage wagon, and placed the body of a father, son and daughter next to it. Our mournful and yet protected and guarded escort returned in the evening to Przebraż. The funeral at the local cemetery took place the next day.
It was one of the thousands of events that accompanied the brutal murders of defenseless Polish people with no chance of survival. I shared this tragedy — each time with stress — to my loved ones, and writing about it still evokes with compelling force the horror of the UPA murders of Poles in the South—East Polish Borderlands”.
source: Franciszek Kułakowski, „Recollections”; in: Obecny Andrzej (ed.), „Volhyniaians in Słupsk”, in: Słupsk, 2008, p. 40 — web page: bibliotekacyfrowa.eu [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
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