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
Siomaki
Kowel pov., Volhynian voiv.
contemporary
S'omaky
Stara Vyzhivka rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
45
max.:
45
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00425
date:
1943.03
site
description
general info
Siomaki
The Ukrainians attacked the forester's lodge and tortured him, burning the forester Jerzy Chrzanowski with fire and tearing off his nails.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 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:
00273
date:
1943.03.24
site
description
general info
Siomaki
The Ukrainians attacked the forester's lodge and tortured him, burning the forester Jerzy Chrzanowski with fire and tearing off his nails.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – March 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:
02322
date:
1943.07
site
description
general info
Siomaki
In Siomaki, next to the village of Gajówka (Maciejów commune, Kowel county) – in August – Ukrainian nationalists surrounded the gamekeeper's lodge in broad daylight, and then captured and cruelly murdered the six–person family of the forester Piotrowski.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Dłuski Stanisław, „A fragment of a great crime”; in: „Polish Forest”, in: No. 10, 1991
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
02881
date:
1943.08
site
description
general info
Siomaki
Antoni Piotrowski and his family were murdered by the Ukrainians after an attack on the forester's lodge. Apart from the gamekeeper, the following people died: Piotrowska, 50, son Feliks, 25, with his wife Eugenia, 20, and their one‑year‑old son, Edward, 17.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „The 75th anniversary of the genocide – August and the summer of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Orłowski Edward, „Foresters who died during the war and persecution in 1938-1949 in Eastern Lesser Poland and the post-war Rzeszów region”; in: Regional Directorate of State Forests in Krosno — web page: www.krosno.lasy.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.01.29]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
02941
date:
1943.09.01
site
description
general info
Siomaki
Using axes, forks and other tools, they murdered over 30 Poles, mostly women and children. At that time, a group of UPA gamekeepers, Młynarczyk, aged around 56, with his wife, aged around 48, and their four children, and Niewiarowska, pregnant, aged around 40, were murdered. gamekeeper Stanisław Janaczek and his son.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Orłowski Edward, „Foresters who died during the war and persecution in 1938-1949 in Eastern Lesser Poland and the post-war Rzeszów region”; in: Regional Directorate of State Forests in Krosno — web page: www.krosno.lasy.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.01.29]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
more than 30
min. 31
max. 31
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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.
- English contemporary name of the site — in accordance with naming conventions used in Google Maps.
- Contemporary regional info about the site — if in Ukraine than in accordance to administrative structure of Ukraine valid till 2020.
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