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.:
25
max.:
36
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
03983
date:
1943.12.25
site
description
general info
The most gruesome killing was on Christmas 1943. Nationalists abducted 14 people from nearby villages – Wołochów, Pereliski and Ponikwy, including two women. There were also two The Ukrainians among the abductees. One married a Polish woman, and the other, a defector from the Ukrainian police, refused to cooperate with the UPA. After a few days, the dogs dragged out their bodies, which lay under the snow at a distance from our house. The bodies were frozen and stripped of clothes. They were all terribly massacred. Our neighbor Ignacy Żegliński was the most harassed. He was a powerful man, strong. Apparently he was defending himself because he had a completely crushed head (I still don't know how they did it), a concave chest with broken ribs. For this he had the so–called gloves.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Żuk Stanisław, „This genocide came from Volhynia”; in: „Nasz Dziennik”, in: 28.II-1.III. 2009
H. Komański et Sz. Siekierka […] when discussing the village of Wołochy state that on December 24, 1943, during the Christmas Eve Supper from the Żegliński house, the Bandera followers kidnapped three people and, after being tortured, murdered in the forest. They were: Żegliński Ignacy, Żegliński Leon, Ignacy's brother, who came to his brother for Christmas from Jasionów; and Benedyk Włodzimierz (Dymitr), around 30, Ignacy's son–in–law, Ukrainian. „The body of a Ukrainian was the most massacred. It was commonly said that this was a punishment for refusing to murder his father–in–law and wife”. They do not mention the abduction of several people from Ponikwa and do not mention any reports from the village of Pereliski.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; 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. 93—94
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
14
min. 14
max. 14
ref. no:
05366
date:
1944.02
site
description
general info
Ponikwa
The Banderites murdered 10 Poles in the second half of February.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
10
min. 10
max. 10
ref. no:
07711
date:
1944.07
site
description
general info
Ponikwa
The Banderites murdered 10 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
10
min. 10
max. 10
ref. no:
10011
date:
1945.03–1945.05
site
description
general info
Ponikwa
The Ukrainians murdered 1 Pole.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „The investigation into the crime of genocide by Ukrainian nationalists aimed at the total destruction of the Polish population in 1939—1945 in the Zborów and Brody poviats, voivodship Tarnopol”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN, in: ref. No. S 83/09/Zi — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
10012
date:
1945.03–1945.05
site
description
general info
Between the village of Ponikwa and the village of Wołochy, county Brody The Ukrainians murdered 1 Pole.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „The investigation into the crime of genocide by Ukrainian nationalists aimed at the total destruction of the Polish population in 1939—1945 in the Zborów and Brody poviats, voivodship Tarnopol”; in: Institute of National Remembrance IPN, in: ref. No. S 83/09/Zi — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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