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
Rejmontówka
Kamień Koszyrski pov., Polesie voiv.
contemporary
Lyubeshiv rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
general info
locality non—existent
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
103
max.:
103
events (incidents)
ref. no:
01179
date:
1943.03–1943.06
(spring)
site
description
general info
Rejmontówka
The Banderites murdered three Poles on the roads, including stabbing 14‑year‑old Janek Safin with knives in the forest near the village of Wólka Lubieszowska.
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:
3
min. 3
max. 3
ref. no:
03649
date:
1943.11.09
site
description
general info
Rejmontówka
The Polesie Voivodship The UPA murdered almost all Poles and burnt their farms; adults were slaughtered with axes and bayonets, and infants were impaled. 100 people were murdered – according to the testimony of Jan Bulwicki, the pre–war mayor of this colony, who made a list of the victims. The Poles who remained alive from Lubieszów and Reymontówka, as well as from the colonies of Choromeck and Czysta Łuża, escaped either north to Bałandycze on the Royal Canal, or south to the forest complex of Krasny Bór. As a result, after the war, only two or three Poles remained in Lubieszów, and Reymontówka disappeared from the map, now a forest grows there, and a clear field remains after the Choromeck colony, where the Soviets had built an airport. „Investigation into national homicide of about 100 inhabitants of the village of Kolonia Rejmontówka and at least 183 inhabitants of Lubieszów – Kamień Koszyrski county, former voivodeship Polesie, by Ukrainian nationalists from the UPA which took place on November 9, 1943, i.e. for the crime specified in Art. 118 § 1 of the Penal Code in connection with with art. 3 of the Act of 18 December 1998 on the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (S 92/07 / Zi). The proceedings concerned the killings of people of Polish nationality, committed in and around the commune of Lubieszów by Ukrainian nationalists, which were also crimes against humanity. In addition, there was an investigation into the crime against humanity consisting in the murder on November 9, 1943. in the settlement of Kolonia Rejmontówka and the village of Lubieszów – the former Kamień Koszyrski county, then the voivodeship Polesie, a total of at least 283 of their inhabitants – of Polish nationality, with the use of sharp tools, firearms and by burning alive in a residential building by Ukrainian nationalists from the Lubieszów and Moroccan UPA militia in which they operated, among others Danyło Jurko, Konstantin Szołomickij, a man named Duna, Iwan Jurko, Andrij Jurko, Archip Harasz, Jakow Jurko and others, whose actions were aimed at the destruction of the population of Polish nationality living in these areas, i.e. an act specified in Art. 118 § 1 of the Penal Code in connection with with art. 3 of the Act of December 18, 1998 on the Institute of National Remembrance.The investigation in the case in question was discontinued on April 4, 2011 due to the death of the perpetrators of the identified crimes and the failure to detect other perpetrators of these crimes”.
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:
100
min. 100
max. 100
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