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
Puhaczówka
Łuck pov., Volhynian voiv.
contemporary
Lutsk rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
general info
locality non—existent
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
17
max.:
100
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
01177
date:
1943.03–1943.06
(spring)
site
description
general info
Puhaczówka
The UPA murdered and threw Ludwik Rutkowski, 45, into the well.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – May 1943, Spring 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
01735
date:
1943.07.12
site
description
general info
Puhaczówka
On the night of July 12, the UPA murdered 16 Poles. Mieczysław Fligier reports: „On the night of July 12, 1943, peace in Puhaczówka also ends. – It was a cow that saved my life – says Mieczysław. – In my underwear I ran away to the rye. I was chased by gunshots. I went to my Ukrainian neighbors, not all of them were angry. I got clothes from them. One of them gave pants, the other a shirt and a hat”. Before setting fire to the buildings, the Ukrainians released all the belongings of everyone in the village, barns and pigsties onto the fields. Pretending to be a shepherd, he sets off for Lutsk with a stray alien cow. On the way, he meets Ukrainian patrols. Ukrainian speech is not enough to confirm that he is a Ukrainian, they check whether he can cross himself in the Orthodox rite. In Lutsk, he meets his parents and all siblings with the youngest six‑year‑old sister who was carried in the arms of his mother during the night raid. After the Soviet deportations, the Ukrainian massacres ravage the bloodied Volhynia. The glow over Puhaczówka illuminates sixteen fresh Polish graves.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Bielinowicz Paweł, „A boy from Lutsk”; in: portal: Kurek Mazurski — web page: kurekmazurski.pl [accessible: 2008.02.13]
Siemaszko et Siemaszko […] mention only one victim: Ludwik Rutkowski, murdered and thrown into a well by the UPA in the spring of 1943. They name the village of Sadowo as the village of Sadów, date the raid on June 29 or July 1943 and mention the murder of several dozen people (pp. 642 – 643).
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 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, p. 642
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
16 – few dozen
min. 16
max. 99
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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.
- English contemporary name of the site — in accordance with naming conventions used in Google Maps.
- Contemporary regional info about the site — if in Ukraine than in accordance to administrative structure of Ukraine valid till 2020.
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