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
Potoczyska (Potoczyszcze)
Horodenka pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Potochyshche
Horodenka rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
107
max.:
110
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04102
date:
1943.12
site
description
general info
Potoczyska (Potoczyszcze)
The Banderites robbed Polish farms and murdered 9 Poles, including the 4–person family of the church Józef Krasowski, his 10‑year‑old son Zbigniew, whom they hanged him on a tree next to the church, the second s/o NN, whom they gouged out his eyes before the murder, and his daughter Zofia, whom they nailed with nails on the door of the apartment where she died in agony.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – December 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
9
min. 9
max. 9
ref. no:
09097
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Potoczyska (Potoczyszcze)
In the years 1990–1991, the newspaper „Prykarpacie Truth” from Ivano–Frankivsk published lists of OUN–UPA victims. We will quote a list of victims from only one small village of Potoczyszcze, mentioned above (year of birth of victims in brackets): Wife, Stefan (1870), Pole, murdered on July 2, 1944 for his nationality; Zoneman Ołena (1875), Polish woman, killed on July 2, 1944 for nationality; Krasowska Maria (1889), Polish woman, killed in November 1944 for nationality; Krasowski Zbyszek (1932), Pole, killed in November 1944 for being ancestral; Krasowski Włodzimierz, (1906), Pole, killed in November 1944 for nationality; Olinowska Maria (1902), Polish housewife, killed in November 1944 for nationality; Oleszewska Augustyna (1920), Polish woman, killed in November 1944. for nationality; Parczewskyj Roman (1904), Ołena (1912), Odarta (1936) – murdered in November 1944; Prociuk Roman (1913), killed in November 1944; Romanesque Rudolf (1895), Zofia (1898), Taras (1935), Mikołaj (1906) – all Poles, murdered in November 1944 for their nationality; Romach Stefania (1914), farm home, killed in 1944; Sokołowski Franciszek (1911), a Pole, killed in 1944 for his nationality; Sokołowska Stefania (1941), killed in 1944 for nationality (a three‑year‑old girl – WP); Sokołowska Antonina (1910), Polish woman, killed in 1944 for nationality; Semeniuk Anastazja (1906), a housewife, killed in November 1944; Semeniuk Hanna (1901), a housewife, killed in November 1944; Toporowicz Stanisław (1880), Pole, killed in November 1944. for nationality; Tarasiuk Weronika (1921), a housewife, killed in November 1944; Kuczirka Maria (1916) killed in November 1944; Wołoszczuk N'ykyfor (1908), individual peasant, killed in November 1944; Wołoszczuk Katarzyna (1915), a housewife, killed in November 1944; Czumak Omelian (1908), individual peasant, killed in November 1944; Chort Olga, mother (1916), housewife, Polish woman, killed in November 1944 for nationality; Chort Jarosław, son (1943), killed together with his mother (one‑year‑old child – WP); Chort Wasyl, son (1941), killed in 1944 – three‑year‑old child – Polish Army killed in November 1944; Wołoszczuk Katarzyna (1915), a housewife, killed in November 1944; Czumak Omelian (1908), individual peasant, killed in November 1944; Chort Olga, mother (1916), housewife, Polish woman, killed in November 1944 for nationality; Chort Jarosław, son (1943), killed with his mother (one‑year‑old child – WP); Chort Wasyl, son (1941), killed in 1944 – a three‑year‑old child – Polish Army killed in November 1944; Wołoszczuk Katarzyna (1915), a housewife, killed in November 1944; Czumak Omelian (1908), individual peasant, killed in November 1944; Chort Olga, mother (1916), housewife, Polish woman, killed in November 1944 for nationality; Chort Jarosław, son (1943), killed together with his mother (one‑year‑old child – WP); Chort Wasyl, son (1941), killed in 1944 – three‑year‑old child – Polish Army.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Poliszczuk Wiktor (ed.); in: „Prykarpaty truth”, in: 13.XI.1990, p. 2,3
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
30
min. 30
max. 30
ref. no:
07564
date:
1944.07.02
site
description
general info
Potoczyska (Potoczyszcze)
The UPA murdered 2 Poles, a married couple.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Poliszczuk Wiktor, „Not only in Volhynia”; in: „New Polish Thought”, in: March 23, 2003
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
08138
date:
1944.10.10
site
description
general info
Potoczyska (Potoczyszcze)
The Banderites murdered 55 inhabitants because they worked in a kolkhoz: 5 Poles and 50 Ukrainians.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
55
min. 55
max. 55
ref. no:
08523
date:
1944.11
site
description
general info
Potoczyska (Potoczyszcze)
In November 1944, the following were murdered: Krasowska Maria (1889); Krasowski Włodzimierz. probably it is among the NN, Olinowska Maria d/o Jan (1902); Olinowska of Augustine d/o Jerzy (1920); The Romanski family: Rudolf of s. Marcin (1895), Zofia s. Jan (1898), Taras s. Rudolf (1935), Mikołaj s. Marcin (1906); Toporowicz, Stanisław (1880).
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Stanisław Jastrzębski for the Lubelskie Voivodeship (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2016, vol. 8
The UPA murdered a Polish family of three with a 12‑year‑old son.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Poliszczuk Wiktor, „Not only in Volhynia”; in: „New Polish Thought”, in: March 23, 2003
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
9 – 12
min. 9
max. 12
ref. no:
08329
date:
1944.11.02
site
description
general info
Potoczyska (Potoczyszcze)
„On November 2, 1944, Zoneman Stefan s/o Jan (1870), was murdered” and „on November 2, 44, Zoneman Olen daugher of Matthew (1875) was murdered”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Stanisław Jastrzębski for the Lubelskie Voivodeship (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2016, vol. 8
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
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