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
Rudnia
Horochów pov., Volhynian voiv.
contemporary
Lokachi rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
general info
locality non—existent
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
142
max.:
142
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00999
date:
1943.05
site
description
general info
Rudnia
The UPA kidnapped and murdered Stanisław Jączek, 35.
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:
01739
date:
1943.07.12
site
description
general info
Rudnia
[The Ukrainians] murdered 141 Poles. „Antoni Sienkiewicz also told me how Ukrainian nationalists previously attacked the Polish village of Rudnia near Kisielin and murdered Poles there. It was like this: when they burst into the house of Leokadia Dobrowolska, who was staying with her husband there, she managed to survive. Meanwhile, her husband and the entire Dobrowolski family were cruelly murdered. In this attack, which took place about 3 days before the attack on Dominopol, most of the inhabitants of the Polish village of Rudnia were killed. So it was either July 8 or 9, 1943”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Roch Sławomir Tomasz, „Recollections of Kazimierz and Antonina Sidorowicz née Turowska from the village of Dominopol in the district of Włodzimierz Wołyński in Volhynia 1930-1944”; in: portal: Volhynia, in: Zamosc, May 1, 2003 — web page: www.wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.04.06]
W and E Siemaszko on pp. 166 – 168 date the raid on the village of Rudnia on July 12, and among the 141 Poles murdered they also mention Leokadia Dobrowolska. From April the UPA requisitioned food, bowls, spoons, towels, etc. Here, some of the victims were killed on the spot using brutal tortures and rapes, some were spent in front of the chapel and slaughtered there with axes, scythes, knives, forks, etc. The village, robbed and burned, stopped exist.
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
When we left Wojnica, 2 km away, we saw a terrible view on the right side of the road. Great fire – the whole village of Rudnia is burning. You can hear the moans of murdered people, the roar of cattle and the barking of dogs. A terrifying sight and great fear, because our transport can also circle around and kill it at any moment. On the left side of the road, also up to 2 km, the village of Róża – the same view: the Ukrainian bandits are on fire and murdering Poles. We are driving in silence and everyone is praying that we can safely reach the city.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Fr Adamowicz Leszek, „Escape from Volhynia. Memories of Aniela Kuźmińska née Konsowicz, b. January 2, 1928, d. May 2, 2009, until 1943 ordered Wólka Markowicka, last residence in Brodzica near Hrubieszów”, Poviat Council in Jarosław
The village of Róża, county Horochów was not mentioned in the Siemaszków work. The above account shows that the Polish population was murdered there on July 12, 1943, and the buildings were burnt.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „Recollections of Aniela Kuźmińska nee Konsowicz”; in: portal: Volhynia pages — web page: free.of.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
141
min. 141
max. 141
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EXPLANATIONs
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- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
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