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
Podzbuż
Kostopol pov., Volhynian voiv.
contemporary
Kostopil rai., Rivne obl., Ukraine
general info
locality non—existent
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
3
max.:
3
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00415
date:
1943.03
site
description
general info
Podzbuż
„In March 1943, the Banderites murdered the father of Karol Żarczyński. He was eight years old at the time, the family lived in the Podzbuż settlement. – Dad was kidnapped on the road. In the morning, his massacred body was found on the side of the road and brought to our house. He got five bullets, which was a rarity at the time – says Żarczyński” […] „– There was a mill by the Bartosiewicz family nearby. They had two children. The UPA murdered them in the forest – says Karol Żarczyński. – The girl was raped. Then they laid them both on the ground and hit them with a big felled tree. Children left in this way starved to”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Zychowicz Piotr, „Ukrainians who saved Poles”; in: „Rzeczpospolita”, in: October 26, 2010
Karol Żarczyński lived in the settlement of Podzbuż. Siemaszko, on p. 318, mention futor Podzbuż, from which they have no information about the fate of the Poles living here.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siemaszko Władysław, Siemaszko Ewa, „The genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population of Volhynia 1939 - 1945”, in: Warsaw 2000
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
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EXPLANATIONs
- Lack of info about the perpetrators in the description of a given event (Incident) indicates that the blame should be attributed to the perpetrators listed in general info section.
- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
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