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
Pistyń
Kosów Huculski pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Pistyn'
Kosiv rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
78
max.:
79
events (incidents)
ref. no:
01995
date:
1943.07.24
site
description
general info
Pistyń
[Ukrainians] robbed the presbytery, kidnapped Fr Józef Grzesiowski and strangled him with a rope in a meadow near the forest near the village of Szeszory.
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
02020
date:
1943.07.29
site
description
general info
Pistyń
The Ukrainians murdered a Polish family of three. „In line with the letter from P. Delegate of 3. IX. 1943 No. 6899 / T / 43 The Polish Welfare Committee in Kołomyja reports: On 29. VII. br. in Pistyń, villager Marchewka was murdered with his wife and child”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 183—184
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
03274
date:
1943.09
site
description
general info
Pistyń
The UPA massacred 26 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
26
min. 26
max. 26
ref. no:
09091
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Pistyń
Eugeniusz Wołoszczuk and Szczepan Stefaniuk were murdered on the road near the village of Pistyń, when they were riding their bikes from Kosów to Kołomyja. The Ruthenians cut off the head of Wincent Wołoszczuk, Eugeniusz's father, kicked it with a soccer ball, and then smashed it into pieces – similar sadistic murders of Poles were common in Pokucie.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: web page: www.szeszory.3-2-1.pl [accessible: 2010.01.01]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
06070
date:
1944.03
site
description
general info
Pistyń
Local Banderites robbed Polish farms, burned some of them and murdered an unspecified number of Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
unknown
ref. no:
08348
date:
1944.11.10
site
description
general info
Pistyń
The UPA murdered 11 Poles: a family of 4 with a 2‑year‑old son, a family of 3 and two married couples. Others: 10 Poles: a family of 6 and 2 married couples.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
10 – 11
min. 10
max. 11
ref. no:
08688
date:
1944.12.24
site
description
general info
Pistyń
The UPA massacred 36 Poles, including entire families; they burned 3 people alive: an 80‑year‑old old man and a couple. „Nobody stayed in the house for the night. We hid in a nearby forest for the night. It was worst during winter and early spring. Cold, frost and rains made their lives hard. I remember that both my husband and our three‑year‑old child, wrapped in a quilt and hidden outside the house at night, saw glows in the sky from somewhere burning Polish farms. For the day we returned to our home. And so, from August 1943, April 1944 passed, a period full of anxiety, fear and constant hiding from death at the hands of the genocidal Banderites […] Some, however, stayed where they were. They succumbed to the assurances of a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest who promised that whoever rewrites himself to Greek Catholicism and Ukrainian nationality and pays for 2 kg of wheat per person, can stay in the village and be safe. Several families remained, but on December 24, 1944, the Bandera followers again attacked and murdered the remaining”s.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 229, 231
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
36
min. 36
max. 36
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