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.:
1
max.:
1
events (incidents)
ref. no:
07790
date:
1944.08.18
site
description
general info
Paleniki
The Ukrainians murdered 19‑year‑old Weronika Suchocka. „On that horrible day, she went to her brother Józef's wife to get his clothes […] she reached the village of Palanykie. There she fell into the hands of the torturers who did not release her alive. By beating her, they mocked the young «Laszka» and played with her. Finally, they stripped her, tied her up, sitting on a horse–drawn cart, and decorated her with green branches. and took them around the countryside as a symbol of dying Poland. all the inhabitants of Pałyniki watched it, and no one objected to the fanciful tortures inflicted by degenerate UPA bandits. Finally, they took her to the place where the dead animals were buried, there they dug a small hole, in which she was covered with earth in a standing position, up to the neck. Bloodied head with motionless face and watery eyes. she was alone in the field. Everyone left her, though the crying eyes showed, that he is still alive but unable to get out of the ground. Nobody knows when she died. The next day, the criminals covered their heads with soil, creating a tombstone of a young Polish martyr, whom good God must have included among his saints and martyrs”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Olearczyk vel Olejarczyk Karol, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 863—864
She was stopped in the village of Pałaniki by the Bandera followers, who made her a macabre spectacle. They stripped them naked, cut out their tongues, put them on a cart decorated with green branches and drove them around the village as a symbol of dying Poland. This spectacle lasted for half a day until dusk. In the evening, the girl was taken to the so–called the trench where the dead animals were buried, a hole was dug into which she was placed in a standing position up to the neck, and so she died in agony for several hours.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Pańczyszyn Tadeusz, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 872
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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