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 Kniaźsielska
Kostopol pov., Volhynian voiv.
contemporary
Berezne rai., Rivne obl., Ukraine
general info
locality non—existent
Murders
Perpetrators:
Germans and Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
7
max.:
280
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
01428
date:
1943.06
site
description
general info
Rudnia Kniaźsielska
According to W. and E. Siemaszków, the Ukrainian policemen with the Germans murdered 7 Poles during the pacification.
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
Czesław Piotrowski, in the book Przez Wołyń i Polesie na Podlasie (Warsaw 1998) on p. 29, writes that on August 13, 1943 the Home Army AK unit „Bombs” met a burned village with a plate „Rudnia Kniaźsielska” and a tall oak cross on a high embankment with the inscription: „Here lie 280 bodies of the Polish nation murdered by the German military police”; He also met some of the inhabitants hiding in the forest, behind the swamps.
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: Piotrowski Czesław, „Through Volhynia and Polesie in Podlasie”, in: Warsaw 1998
perpetrators
Germans and Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
7 – 280
min. 7
max. 280
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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.
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