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
Pomorzany
Zborów pov., Tarnopol voiv.
contemporary
Peremyshliany rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
123
max.:
123
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles and Ukrainians
Number of victims:
min.:
2
max.:
2
events (incidents)
ref. no:
03160
date:
1943.09.22
site
description
general info
Pomorzany
The Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles, 19 of them (it was Jerzy Reichschutz, a former head of the 2nd Cadet Corps in Lviv).
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:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
06835
date:
1944.04
site
description
general info
Pomorzany
[The Ukrainians] caught two brothers near their family home: 23‑year‑old Michał Kępiński and 25‑year‑old Józef, and buried them alive in the ground.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
06239
date:
1944.04.02
site
description
general info
Pomorzany
Banderites and Ukrainian peasants from nearby villages robbed and burned the village, and murdered about 70 Poles and 2 Jewish women, and one wounded Pole died in May. „They were often murdered in a cruel way, then they were robbed, everything was taken: horses, cattle, equipment, tools, clothes, food products. Things were packed not only on the carts of the murdered, but the attackers also had their own carts. The last step was to burn down the buildings […] They tried to burn all the corpses, so the murders were carried out in buildings suitable for burning. If the house was made of brick, the victims were herded into a cowshed or barn […] Justyna Niesłuchowska, 18, d/o Michał and Waleria Niesłuchowska, 15, d/o Michał – cruelly murdered in a barn. Their stomachs were ripped open with knives. Despite the attempts to set it on fire, the barn did not burn down. Niesłuchowski, 5 years old, s/o Antoni. The body was not found. Probably the remains remained under the rubble. Tekla Niesłuchowska, 50, Józef's wife, Karolina Niesłuchowska, 27, d/o Józef, two children of Karolina, aged 1 to 3, Katarzyna Niesłuchowska, 27, d/o Józef Karolina's twin sister, Józef Niesłuchowski, 34, probably defended himself the shovel with which he was found in the basement. Katarzyna Niesłuchowska, 32, wife of Józef, killed during an escape. Her golden teeth had been torn out. Katarzyna's father, who lived in a neighboring village. Six Niesłuchowski girls, aged four to fourteen. The corpse was strewn around the yard and garden […] The Germans were at the crime scene only during the day. They took photos and asked about the perpetrators. People were afraid to say anything. For example, Sadija from the hamlet of Parcelany was diagnosed, who gave the signal to start the attack. There was also a representative of the Ukrainian civil authority from Pomerania. He made a list of the murdered. Taking into account the fact that this government cooperated with the Ukrainian underground, it can be assumed that it was also used for reporting by the OUN. People heard him explaining to the Germans that the attacks were being carried out by Soviet partisans, although it was not difficult to establish that the entire procession, after the attack, headed to the nearby Ukrainian village of Żabin. The version about the murder of Poles by the Soviet partisans was not at all original. A few months earlier, the Greek Catholic metropolitan in Lviv, Andrzej Szeptycki, wrote to the Roman Catholic archbishop of Lviv, Bolesław Twardowski, in a letter from November 15, 1943 that the murders were carried out by Soviet partisans and Jewish gangs. I based the description of the events on the testimony of several elderly people. I was surprised that some people were asked not to mention their names. I realized that they were afraid, seeing the increasing influence and audacity of Ukrainian chauvinists in Poland. Those who are more interested in these matters can see that this is the result of the activities of many Polish politicians who recognized the Ukrainian chauvinists as representatives of the entire Ukrainian community in Poland and as ambassadors of good relations between Poland and Ukraine”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Selwa Jan, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 953—956
On April 2, 1944, about 70 Poles were murdered here – the entire village, leaving no witnesses. If it weren't for a handful of people who escaped the massacre and the good neighbors who dared to hide them and then bury the bodies of the murder victims – no one would even know what happened in Pomerania and where the mass grave of the victims was. The Society of Polish Culture of the Lviv Region in Złoczów would not have found out about its existence and there would never be a monument which, thanks to painstaking work and many efforts, was finally consecrated after nearly 10 years. We, Poles, would not be here either, who decided to pay tribute to the murdered and keep the place of their martyrdom from oblivion. Thanks to the fact that we arrived a bit ahead of time and the celebration itself started a bit later than planned, we had the opportunity to talk with the inhabitants of Pomerania and learn more about the tragedy of 1944 from the lips of the surviving relatives of the victims. „My father had a sense of what was about to happen and wanted to save me. He took me to a family in a neighboring village and they let me stay for the night. The sisters from the church washed me out and combed my hair. It was palm sunday. Despite my pleadings, my father did not stay overnight, evading the fact that he should return home for some reason” – one witness recalls with tears in his eyes. „In the morning the window next to me was covered. I was told it was because of the cold. The hostess, where my father left me, asked her husband to harness the horses and go to see what happened behind the mountain, because we heard disturbing news. He hesitated a lot, but still drove. When he came back, we played with the farmers' children. «You have one orphan here, and you have the other» – said the host to his wife, pointing to me and his daughter. He had in mind that the perpetrators would seek the victims' families and punish those who helped them. Understanding the situation choked my throat and brought a wave of tears. The hostess asked my husband to take me to see what happened. We arrived in a sleigh. Many of the huts were burned out. In my house – a massacre. Hysteria began to suffocate me. Everything remained intact for three days, because they were afraid to come closer to the place of execution. Later, a large pit – a grave was dug and the victims were buried. They were hidden in whatever it was possible – boxes, wardrobes. When my father was still alive, he made a large box for grain. Even then, it didn't occur to him that he had made his own coffin…”. On June 27, 2010 at the cemetery in Pomorzany there was a ceremony of blessing the monument on the mass grave to the murdered Poles, which was performed by Fr Michał Hołdowicz, noting that: „It will resemble a bitter but necessary truth. Strong, healthy and lasting human relationships can never be built on a hypocrisy, false or untrue” […] The rollcall is sounding – we are calling 56 victims of the murder. These are only those who have been identified. Many more people died in Pomorzany, but their names remain unknown until now. .
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Łokietko Julia, „Memory for the future”; in: „Galician Courier”, in: July 16-28, 2010
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
72
min. 72
max. 72
ref. no:
06317
date:
1944.04.08
site
description
general info
Pomorzany
In broad daylight, the Ukrainian gang murdered 47 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Central Archives of Modern Records, in: DR, ref. No. 202 /III/ 121, sh. 267—290
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
47
min. 47
max. 47
ref. no:
11364
date:
1946.12.26
site
description
general info
Pomorzany
Jan Niesłuchowski, 80, and NN Ukrainian women, c. 70, were murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1946 and in 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.28]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles and Ukrainians
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
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