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.:
3
max.:
4
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
07798
date:
1944.08.23
site
description
general info
Rusiłów
The Banderites murdered two nuns. They were: Stefania Matylda Ustianowicz (sister Zofia, whom they cut with a saw) and Maria Wanda Szembek (sister Laetitia from God's Love), who were returning from the convent in Jazłowiec to Niżniów. Their massacred bodies were found in November in the woods. Their coachman, Antoni Blicharski from Nowosiółka, and probably Katarzyna Szczerbata – a former monastery employee, whose body has not been found, were also bestially murdered.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: web page: www.niepokalanki.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
Sr. Laetitia Jadwiga Szembek, from the Congregation of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Jazłowiec, Buczacz County. „During World War II and the German occupation, she participated in the action to help Jews in Warsaw. In the fall of 1943, she became the administrator of the monastery in Jazłowiec. On August 21, 1944, together with Sister Zofia Ustyanowicz, she went to Niżniów. Two days later they set off on a return journey. Then, during the genocide committed by the Ukrainians, called «the Volhynia genocide», they were kidnapped by a gang of genocidal Ukrainian organization OUN / UPA. Tortured. On August 29, 1944, the massacred body of a coachman was found. a few months later, on November 3, 1944 in the forest near Rusiłów, the body of Sr. Laetitia was found. She had a fractured leg, a torn or broken right arm, impact marks on her back, and three cuts on her head”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: GTKRK, „Sr Szembek Maria Laetitia of God's Love (Maria Wanda Rozalia)”; in: portal: «The White Book». Martyrology of the clergy - Poland. XX century (1914-1989), St Sigismund parish in Słomczyn — web page: www.swzygmunt.knc.pl [accessible: 2020.02.01]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
3 – 4
min. 3
max. 4
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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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