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
Rafajłowa
Nadwórna pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Bystrytsya
Nadvirna rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
29
max.:
40
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
06228
date:
1944.04.01–1944.04.02
site
description
general info
Rafajłowa
Upowcy robbed and burned Polish farms and murdered 20 Poles, whole families.
During Holy Week, the Banderites and Ukrainian peasants murdered the Polish population in the villages of: Limanowa – 46 Poles. Majdan – 10 Poles, Pasieczna – 107 Poles, Rafajłowa – 20 Poles, Weleśnica – 17 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. Sowa Andrzej Leon, „Polish-Ukrainian relations 1939-1947”; in: Society of History Supporters, in: Krakow 1998, p. 236
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
20
min. 20
max. 20
ref. no:
09106
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Rafajłowa
(forestry inspectorate)
The following were murdered by the UPA: forester Antoni Duda and his wife, forest manipulator Leopold Grygorski–Polo, forest manipulator Stefan Bott with his family, gamekeeper Marian Ostrowski, forester Józef Polak, b. 1894.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Orłowski Edward, „Foresters who died during the war and persecution in 1938-1949 in Eastern Lesser Poland and the post-war Rzeszów region”; in: Regional Directorate of State Forests in Krosno — web page: www.krosno.lasy.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.01.29]
Siekierka et al. […] , regarding the village of Rafajłowa, state that on the night of April 1–2, 1944, the UPA band attacked Polish farms, plundered, burned and murdered 20 NN Poles (men, women, children).
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 346
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
9 – 20
min. 9
max. 20
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