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
Skomorochy Stare
Rohatyn pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Stari Skomorokhy
Halych rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
21
max.:
22
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
03397
date:
1943.10.12
site
description
general info
Skomorochy Stare
The Banderites murdered the parish priest, Fr Tadeusz Stroński. „A group of 6 murdered the parish priest, Fr Stroński, an outstanding national and Catholic activist. He was killed with three shots. Late Fr Stroński was 44 years old. From his earliest youth, he worked in the ranks of the national camp. In 1918 he took part in the defense of Lviv and was decorated with the Independence Cross. Late the deceased was the brother of a well–known activist, prof. Stroński. The corpse of the late Fr Stroński were brought to Lviv and laid to rest at the Łyczakowski Cemetery on Sunday 17.X.43”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – October 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Central Archives of Modern Records, in: AK, 203 /XV/ 42, sh. 20—26
Among the murderers was the s/o a Greek Catholic priest and parish priest, Sławko Niernyj; his father Vasyl Niernyj was the initiator of the murders in the area. One of the murderers was dressed in the cassock of Fr Wierzbowski.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – October 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Jastrzębski Stanisław, „The genocide of the Polish population by the OUN-UPA in the province stanisławowski in 1939-1945”, in: Warsaw 2004, p. 288
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
05061
date:
1944.02.18
site
description
general info
On the road from the village of Lipica to the village of Skomorochy Stare, county Rohatyn murdered a 24‑year‑old Polish woman. „On February 18, 1944 in Skomorochy district. Rohatyn: Udata Maria (24) née Skulska, killed on the road from Lipica to Skomoroch”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, July 17 - Letter from PolKO in Stanisławów to the Director of RGO in Kraków containing a personal list of people abducted and murdered from the beginning of the attacks, from September 1943 to July 15, 1944”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/1, p. 349—373
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
05084
date:
1944.02.20
site
description
general info
Skomorochy Stare
[The Ukrainians] murdered 20 Poles. „19.II.44. Skomorochy Stare. Murdered Skulka Maria”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944. February - March - Lists of murders and attacks on the Polish population drawn up in the RGO in Lviv on the basis of reports from the area”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/2, p. 219—253
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
20
min. 20
max. 20
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