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
Mołożów
Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv.
contemporary
Hrubieszów cou., Lublin voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
5
max.:
5
Perpetrators:
Poles
Victims:
Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
9
max.:
9
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
11652
date:
1939–1947
site
description
general info
Mołożów
„In the course of the ongoing investigation it was established that in the period 1939‑1947 in the village of Mołożów numerous killings of the Polish population were committed by Ukrainian nationalists against the Polish civilian population. physical extermination of the Polish population living in this area, including Władysław C., Józef Ch., Janina T.”.
S. Jastrzębski and Sz. Siekierka do not mention this village.
source: Institute of National Remembrance IPN, in: Acta IPN 122/11/Zi
source: Jastrzębski Stanisław, „Ukrainian nationalists genocide against Poles in the Lublin region in 1939-1947”, in: Nortom Publishing, 2007 — web page: sbc.org.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1947”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.03.02]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
at least 3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
00548
date:
1943.04.22
(Maundy Thursday)
site
description
general info
Mołożów
22.04. 1943, during the eviction of the village, the Ukrainian police or SS Galizien shot dead two people: Śniadecki Wojciech, 27 (a Home Army soldier) and Smyk Władysław, 21.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – April 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Stanisław Jastrzębski for the Lubelskie Voivodeship (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2016, vol. 8
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
00771
date:
1943.05.06
site
description
general info
Mołożów
Crime committed in the village of Mołożów on May 6, 1943 on the civilian population of Ukraine by the Kedyw unit.
According to a German report, three residents of Mołozhov were shot and seriously injured, six people were burned and seven were severely burned. The attackers burned 60 farms, including 29 cattle, 15 horses and 34 pigs. The report estimated the size of the Polish branch at 80 people [1].
According to OUN documents, 59 households were burnt, the number of victims in Mołożów and Strzelce totaled 54 people [2], including 50 men and 4 women [3].
The attack on Mołożów was a retaliation by the Polish underground for the German action Ukraineraktion (a German plan to settle people of Ukrainian nationality as part of the expulsion of Poles from the Zamość region), often carried out with the participation of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police [3]. Mołożów was a village partially inhabited by Ukrainian displaced persons.
source: „The crime in Mołożów”; in: portal: WikipediA — web page: pl.wikipedia.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Poles
victims
Ukrainians
number of
textually:
9
min. 9
max. 9
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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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