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
Okno
Horodenka pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Horodenka rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
16
max.:
20
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
02258
date:
1943.07
site
description
general info
Okno
The Banderites murdered 5 Poles. Others: In the village of Okno near Czerniatyn, county Horodenka and his family were murdered by the UPA „forester” Bożemski.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; 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]
On 24. VII. br. In the same week, a Bożemski forester and three people were murdered in Okna [Horodenka].
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1943, September 8 - Letter from PolKO in Kołomyja to the RGO Delegate in Lviv regarding attacks and murders committed on Poles in the district”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 183—184
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
01956
date:
1943.07.20
site
description
general info
Okno
Bożemski Konrad, a forester with his family, murdered on July 20, 43.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [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
According to the letter of P. Delegat of 3. IX. 1943 No. 6899 / T / 43 The Polish Welfare Committee in Kołomyja reports: On 26. VII. br. the butcher Lewandowski was shot in Jabłonowo [Kołomyja]. In the same week, a Bożemski forester and three people were murdered in Okna [Horodenka].
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
02593
date:
1943.08.27
site
description
general info
In Czernelica–Okna, area Sokal (August 27, 1943) – a group of Ukrainian chauvinists murdered Zenon Borzemski, a forester and three other people of Polish nationality.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „The 75th anniversary of the genocide – August and the summer of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Dłuski Stanisław, „A fragment of a great crime”; in: „Polish Forest”, in: No. 13—14, 1991
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
05346
date:
1944.02
site
description
general info
Okno
The Ukrainians murdered 6 Poles.
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:
6
min. 6
max. 6
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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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