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
Smolnik
Lesko pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Bieszczady cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
10
max.:
10
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
07918
date:
1944.08
site
description
general info
Smolnik
The Ukrainians murdered 10 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
Tadeusz A. Olszański in the Bieszczady guide (Pruszków 2000) states: „In mid–August UPA attacks took place on a number of villages in the eastern part of the Bieszczady Mountains, such as Smolnik, Zatwarnica, Tworylczyk, Sokoliki Górskie, Beniowa, and Lutowiska (August 17), where thanks to strong self–defense, slaughter was avoided. Several to a dozen” people died in these attacks. The attacks on Lutowiska took place in March and May, and the slaughter of several Polish families on July 20–22, 1944.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Olszański Tadeusz A, „Bieszczady”, in: Pruszków 2000
In turn, Janusz Michalik in his book Na Bieszczadzkich Połoninach (Krosno 1997) writes: „Between August 14 and 16, mass murders of Poles were carried out in Smolnik, Zatwarnica, Tworylczyk, Dźwiniacz Górny, Tarnawa, Sokoliki Górskie, and Beniowa in these villages, killing from several to a dozen families., the most in Muczne – 74” people.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Michalik Janusz, „In the Bieszczadzkie Połoniny”, in: Krosno 1997
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
10
min. 10
max. 10
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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.
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