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.:
31
max.:
31
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
03415
date:
1943.10.15
site
description
general info
Panasówka
The UPA robbed Polish farms and burned them down, and when the Polish defense collapsed, they murdered over 30 Poles. „On October 15, 1943, a large group of UPA militia from Volhynia, supported by local Bandera followers, attacked Polish farms, plundered and destroyed them, and murdered the Poles living there. The commander of our self–defense, «Szklanny», was wounded in both legs and captured by the Bandera followers. The torturers tied him to a telegraph pole next to our house, and tied his bloody legs with straw braids, then poured kerosene on him and set him on fire. Burning with a piercing voice, he begged Heaven for death and cursed his executioners, while they sipped the moonshine, mocked the suffering of the victim and laughed loudly. Then the UPA who prayed together every morning and sang: «Good God, Only God». They broke into the local «Latin» chapel, standing in the shade of the thousand‑year‑old linden trees, and desecrated the holy place. They removed the impoverished possessions of the chapel: chasubles, surplice and chalices. Some of them were distributed to village girls. The image of the Mother of God, torn out of the gilded frames, was trampled on, and the frame was taken and used in the church for the image of the «Ukrainian Mother of God»”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – October 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Mazarz Tadeusz, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 950
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
more than 30
min. 31
max. 31
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