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
Meducha
Stanisławów pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Medukha
Halych rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
98
max.:
98
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
09052
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Meducha
Among the 20 murdered Poles was Marian Czechowski: „ […] called from home, the body was found hanged in a grove on a tree, his body was stripped of its skin […] As it turned out later, during the funeral of the victims, the cemetery was surrounded by an armed UPA band and they threw the Poles participating in the funeral into empty dug pits and buried them alive. About 20” people died this way.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Miller Feliks, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 531
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
20
min. 20
max. 20
ref. no:
07484
date:
1944.02–1944.06
site
description
general info
Meducha
During three raids in 1944: on February 13, in April and in the second half of June, they murdered 53 Poles, including entire families.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
53
min. 53
max. 53
ref. no:
05007
date:
1944.02.13
site
description
general info
Meducha
The Banderites murdered an unspecified number of Poles during the attack.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
unknown
ref. no:
05046
date:
1944.02.16
site
description
general info
Meducha
[The Ukrainians] abducted and murdered Jan Leszczyński.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
07518
date:
1944.06
site
description
general info
Meducha
The Ukrainians murdered the Sorokowski family of three.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
08465
date:
1944.09–1944.11
site
description
general info
Meducha
The Ukrainians murdered no less than 18 people.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Discontinuation of the investigation into the genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on 209 citizens of Polish nationality in the former Stanisławowski poviat – Wrocław, May 14, 2012”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Wrocław
Siekierka, Komański and Rózański […] give 624 surnames of killed Poles in Stanisławów county and an estimated number of 1,552 killed Poles. Materials from completed, i.e. discontinued investigations, are not published by the Institute of National Remembrance, including the testimonies of witnesses so important for the National Remembrance, which allows to raise the question about the purpose and meaning of these investigations.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
18
min. 18
max. 18
ref. no:
08064
date:
1944.09
site
description
general info
Meducha
The Ukrainians murdered 3 Poles, including 2 women, and 2 Soviet soldiers on the road.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
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