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.:
42
max.:
42
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04440
date:
1943
site
description
general info
Radowicze
The Ukrainians murdered 3 Poles, including Maria Kurnicka.
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:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
00505
date:
1943.04.10–1943.04.11
site
description
general info
Radowicze
[The Ukrainians] murdered 3 Poles: the non—commissioned officer of the Polish Army Leśniewski and his 2 sons, Eugeniusz and Antoni. „In Radowicze, the first Poles were murdered on the night of April 10—11, 1943. Ukrainian criminals killed Marceli Leśniewski and his two adult sons: Eugeniusz and Antoni, members of the local underground. Bandits in German uniforms surrounded the house at night, searched and informed the household and the detained in German that they would deliver those arrested to the German authorities in Kovel. Leśniewski's daughter Antonina informed the Rakowski neighbors at dawn that the Germans had arrested her father and brothers. Immediately how many pairs in horses went with Wacław Rakowski to Kowel, but they did not know anything in the gendarmerie. Meanwhile, in the morning the neighbors found the bodies of their sons, barely sprinkled with earth in our field in the Żuków colony, located about two kilometers from the Leśniewski's place of residence. His father's body, with his head smashed up, lay a hundred yards away, which would indicate that he was trying to escape, probably sheltered by his sons. One of them was supposed to have a gun, and he must have used it in a desperate fight with the bandits. The funeral was very numerous, despite the fact that the Ukrainians hinted about the massacre of mourners. The family suspected the murder of Teodor Szabatura, the commander of the Ukrainian police in Kovel, who had already escaped to the UPA with the entire battalion of Schutzmen, of inspiration. Before the war, Szabatura, a graduate of the Nazi police school in Trawniki near Lublin, was a gamekeeper at the estate in Krasne near Rejowiec”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – April 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Budzisz Feliks; in: portal: kresy.pl — web page: www.kresy.pl [accessible: 2014.03.31]
F. Budzisz also gives the Ukrainian name of Szabatura as Fedor.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – April 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Budzisz Feliks, „Glory to you and memory”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
01423
date:
1943.06
site
description
general info
Radowicze
At the end of June, the UPA brutally murdered one of the Daszkiewicz families: father Jan, his wife Paulina and two daughters – Helena with a 9–month–old child and Leokadia, whom they stabbed with a pitchfork in the stable under the manger where she was hiding. Helena's five‑year‑old son, Stefan, hid under the wardrobe and survived; he was found the next day crying by his mother's body.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Budzisz Feliks; in: portal: kresy.pl — web page: www.kresy.pl [accessible: 2014.03.31]
Siemaszko et Siemaszko […] state that it was August 28, 1943.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; 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. 387
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
02600
date:
1943.08.28
site
description
general info
Radowicze
The Ukrainians murdered the 5–person Polish family of Daszkiewicz.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „The 75th anniversary of the genocide – August and the summer of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
02652
date:
1943.08.29
site
description
general info
Radowicze
Orthodox feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: they murdered Rozalia Jaszczuk defending the field, the wife of a Ukrainian.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „The 75th anniversary of the genocide – August and the summer of 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:
02977
date:
1943.09.05
site
description
general info
Radowicze
The UPA massacred at least 16 Poles; 15‑year‑old Henryk Skrzek had cut ears, tongue and genitals.
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:
16
min. 16
max. 16
ref. no:
03917
date:
1943.09–1943.12
(autumn)
site
description
general info
Radowicze
The Home Army AK „Jastrzębia” patrol came across UPAs murdering a man in a barn; They had cut off various parts of his body and the man died.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of genocide – November and fall of 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:
03193
date:
1943.09.29
site
description
general info
Radowicze
[The Ukrainians] murdered at least 6 Poles, including a widow with 3 daughters. „While the Germans were in Radowicze, the Ukrainians murdered Kuźmińska and three daughters, Żołnik and her son. Daughter Zofia managed to escape”.
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
at least 6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
06476
date:
1944.04.16
site
description
general info
Radowicze
The Ukrainians murdered 20‑year‑old Henryk Sobczyk.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
Myrosław Onyszkewycz „Orest Karat” gave the order: „I order you to purge your area immediately from the Polish element and Ukrainian–Bolshevik agents. The purge should be carried out in riverside hostels sparsely populated by Poles. To this end, create a militia near the area, composed of our members, whose task would be to eliminate the above–mentioned. Our larger hostels will be cleared of this element by our military units even in broad daylight […] The clearing of the area must be completed before our Easter so that we can celebrate it without Poles. Remember that when the Bolsheviks find us with Poles in our territory, they will slaughter us all […] Make a hard, ruthless fight with them. Not to spare anyone, even in mixed marriages. To take Lachs out of their houses, but The Ukrainians and children in these houses should not be liquidated […] Get the gun. Death to the Poles. Stop, April 6, 1944. Glory to the heroes! Orest, Karat” This order is in the files of the investigation against Myroslav Onyshhevych.
source: Miszko Przemysław, Matkowski Krzysztof, „Crimes of genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists in Eastern Lesser Poland in 1939—1945 against persons of Polish nationality - in the light of investigations by OKŚZPNP in Wrocław”; in: „Crimes of the past, studies and materials of IPN prosecutors”, in: Warszawa 2008, vol. 2 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
08737
date:
1944.11–1944.12
site
description
general info
Radowicze
One day, in the second half of November or in December 1944, my brother Witek and sister Irena went to get fodder and to Trefler with food. The door to the house was open, and he was sitting dead in a chair with gunshot marks on his head hanging back. His shoes were off his feet and they were taken. As it turned out later, that same night the Kolka took the shoes to Zasmyki to a shoemaker, probably Żołnik, and had them remade and fit his legs. Trefler's body was buried in the Zasmyki cemetery by my family and wanderers like him. PS After the war, we were found by Trefler's son, Bolesław, who lived in Wrocław, who was in the Polish Army during the war and fought at the front. He learned from us about the tragic fate of his father and took his modest things, which we had brought from behind the Bug. His mother and sister had been murdered earlier by the Ukrainians. PS In addition to the murder of the Leśniewski family, I would like to add that, based on my conversation a few years ago, with a Ukrainian from Radowicz, Klimienka (who is no longer alive), I found out that two nationalists from Radowicz, s/o a local pop and another one I don't know. After the war, they both fled to America. The role of the pop's son was leading.
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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