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
Pniewno
Kamień Koszyrski pov., Polesie voiv.
contemporary
Pnivne
Kamin-Kashyrskyi rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
14
max.:
18
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00702
date:
1943.04
site
description
general info
Pniewno
Also in April, in the village of Pniewno, Widmuka's gang murdered six Poles. It is noteworthy that Widmuk was the commander of the Ukrainian police in Pniewno and with the entire police station he went to the forest, creating a large UPA unit, thus posing a great threat to the Polish population.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – April 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Supruniuk Stanisław, „From Polesie to Warsaw”, in: Warsaw 2009, p. 55
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
00477
date:
1943.04.05
site
description
general info
On the road in the forest between Pniewy and Skomorokha, the Ukrainians (three policemen) murdered Fr Józef Szostak and the monk Piotr Mojsijonek.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – April 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Dębowska Maria, Popek Leon, „Clergy of the Lutsk diocese. Victims of the war and repression of the occupiers 1939-1945”, in: Lublin 2010, p. 150—151
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
01217
date:
1943.06.24
site
description
general info
The first victim murdered on the road from Lubieszów on June 24, 1943 was the parish priest Józef Szostak, murdered together by a monk from Lubieszów, Piotr of the Piarist Order.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Małe Hołoby”; in: portal: Family genealogy — web page: www.stanicki.com.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
03276
date:
1943.09
site
description
general info
Pniewno
In September 1943, two Polish families, 1. Kwiatkowska Marianna, 54 (Zofia's mother) 2–3, were murdered by Ukrainian nationalists. Zofia née Kwiatkowska, age 25 with her daughter, age 3 4–8. NN family (5 people).
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Losses of the Polish population in the former Polesie Voivodeship as a result of genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists in 1939-1947, preliminary data”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2015, vol. 7
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
8
min. 8
max. 8
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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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