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.:
0
max.:
0
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00508
date:
1943.04.11
site
description
general info
Majdan Lipieński
Władysław and Ewa Siemaszek did not manage to establish the fate of the Poles in Majdan Lipeński.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – April 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siemaszko Władysław, Siemaszko Ewa, „The genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population of Volhynia 1939 - 1945”, in: Warsaw 2000, p. 630
Meanwhile, as we read in the reviewed collection, „on April 11 this year [1943 – AS] a UPA unit defeated the Polish gang that attacked the Ukrainian village of Majdan Lipeński and plundered Ukrainian peasants. There was no loss on our side. The enemy suffered great losses in people, many enemy buildings” were burned (p. 210). It is worth paying attention to the style of this text. It was the Ukrainians who were attacked by the „Polish band”, which then suffered great losses, but from the text we also learn about the „burning of enemy” buildings, which were apparently brought by the attacking Poles…
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – April 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. Sowa Andrzej Leon, „Polish-Ukrainian relations in 1942–1947 in the documents of the OUN ta UPA, edited by Wołodymyr Wiatrowycz, Lviv 2011: [review]”, review; in: „Memory and Justice”, in: No. 12/1, 2013
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
unknown
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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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