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.:
66
max.:
80
events (incidents)
ref. no:
06256
date:
1944.04.03–1944.04.04
site
description
general info
Rumno
The Ukrainians burned down 60 Polish farms and murdered 27 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Motyka Grzegorz, „Ukrainian guerrilla 1942-1960”, in: Warsaw 2006, p. 386
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
27
min. 27
max. 27
ref. no:
07288
date:
1944.06.02–1944.06.03
site
description
general info
Rumno
The Ukrainians from the OUN–UPA from neighboring villages robbed and burned Polish farms and, using axes, knives and bayonets, murdered 40 Poles and 1 Jew. „Drapała Zofia, 25, tortured, her tongue and breasts were cut off. The same was true of Wandycz Anna, 23. Wandycz Zofia, 25, had her breasts massacred. Maria Wandycz, 9 years old, cut out the heart and put it next to the body. Józef's plate, 21 years old, shot, doused with gasoline and burned alive. Puńczyszyn Maria, 6 years old, ripped her belly with a knife and died in agony. Kasprzyczak Katarzyna, 30 years old, hacked with an ax. Kasprzyczak Antoni, 2 years old, Katarzyna's son, his head was smashed with the head of the ax. Dżugaj Maria, 57 years old, stunned by an ax and thrown into the fire, burned alive”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 831, 844
[The Ukrainians] lay in a circle, trampled by horse hooves, bloody and muddy, massacred. They were: Katarzyna Wandycz, my aunt, with a massacred face, a cut–out tongue hanging from her mouth, a bloodied head; Marysia Wandycz, her daughter, had a large hole in her breast, and a heart was torn out of her breast next to it. Anna Wandycz, second daughter (23 years old), head split in half, pieces of bleached brain splattered and a lot of blood all over her body; then the daughter, Zofia Drapała née Wandycz, had very mutilated breasts and holes in her belly. Michał Wandycz, 2 years older than me, had a crushed head with two holes in his temples.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Gąsior Antoni, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 844—845
Marysia (4 years old) with a ripped belly – for several hours she summoned the help of her mother, who was already dead, two‑year‑old Antoś, bayonet stabbed to bed, dying, whimpering like a swallow chick. While standing, we cried with the others.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 883
The news reached the Poles that the command center of the UPA of the local Bandera organization was a local Greek Catholic church. The Ukrainian Pope's sermons were clearly anti–Polish. He called: „it's time to deal with the Poles. It's time to take axes in your hands and cut down all those who are enemies of self–contained Ukraine!”. The words of the Ukrainian pop found fertile ground, which was mainly Ukrainian youth.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Pańczyszyn Tadeusz, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 866
According to the report, our Delegation in Komarno on June 3 this year. a Ukrainian terrorist gang attacked the group of Rumno [Rudki], burned 60 Polish farms, murdered 27 people and injured 11 people. The entire Polish population of the Rumno cluster fled and moved to the nearby Polish community of Chłopy.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, June 8 - A letter from PolKO Lwów-district to the RGO Delegate in Lviv regarding attacks and murders committed on the Polish population in the Miedziaki and Rudno Gromada”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 261
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
27 – 41
min. 27
max. 41
ref. no:
08213
date:
1944.07–1944.10
site
description
general info
Rumno
The local Ukrainians murdered 12 Poles who returned to their farms; „Dżugaj Józef, 22 years old, cut with a wood saw; Gerus Władysław, 20, all his limbs were chopped off alive, then his head; Suchocka Weronika, 19, tortured, buried alive to the ground”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 831
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
12
min. 12
max. 12
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