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
Malawa
Dobromil pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Przemyśl cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
16
max.:
17
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
09813
date:
1945.04.20
site
description
general info
Malawa
(forestry )
In Malawa forestry, part of Bircza forestry region, gamekeeper Michał Szawaryński was murdered by the UPA.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Orłowski Edward, „Foresters who died during the war and persecution in 1938-1949 in Eastern Lesser Poland and the post-war Rzeszów region”; in: Regional Directorate of State Forests in Krosno — web page: www.krosno.lasy.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.01.29]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10030
date:
1945.05
site
description
general info
Malawa
The UPA burnt down some Polish farms and murdered 8 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
8
min. 8
max. 8
ref. no:
10124
date:
1945.05–1945.06
site
description
general info
Malawa
Poles – 5 people died at the hands of the Ukrainians.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
10277
date:
1945.09.08–1945.09.09
site
description
general info
On the night of 8/9/09/1945, a group of Ukrainian nationalists murdered Jan Mielnik, the mayor of the village of Malawa, and the mayor of the village of Brzeżawa. After the murder, windows in houses abandoned by Poles were broken. Both murdered village leaders were of Ukrainian nationality.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „The horror at Bircza. How the Banderites attepted to expel Poles from Poland in July 1945”; in: Association for the Commemoration of the Victims of the Crimes of Ukrainian Nationalists in Wrocław — web page: suozun.org [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
11203
date:
1946.07.26
site
description
general info
Malawa
[The UPA] kidnapped Józef Kaczmarski, the village administrator, who went missing without a trace.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.24]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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EXPLANATIONs
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- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
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