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.:
48
max.:
58
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04368
date:
1943
site
description
general info
Markowicze
The UPA spent 5 Polish families (about 25 people) in the basement and threw grenades; the cellar collapsed and the ground above it was still moving for some time.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
c. 25
min. 25
max. 25
ref. no:
01396
date:
1943.06
site
description
general info
Markowicze
Nearby, a Ukrainian friend had an order to murder a Polish friend with whom he went to school together. They wanted to try him, his heroism, he attacked her at home in broad daylight, it was still a week before the general murder, he stabbed her in the back, and she started screaming that Misha, what are you doing? And he says to her: you, Poland, where your heart is. When she fell, he struck her a heartbeat. He killed her, father and mother. It was the first bandit attempt in a village where there were 5 Polish families. They were herded to a basement, such a dugout, and thrown grenades over them so that the basement buried them immediately. The Ukrainians, who were against it, told us that they were wounded and that the earth was moving for three days, such torment was caused by the Ukrainians to these poor people. It was sometime at the end of June, in the village of Markowicze near Horochów, when they murdered the Podkowiński family and those 5 families.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Wolf Józefa z. d Zawilska, „Memories”; in: portal: Volhynia pages — web page: free.of.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5 families + 3
min. 23
max. 33
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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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