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.:
8
max.:
12
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
03923
date:
1943.09–1943.12
(autumn)
site
description
general info
Smordwa
In Smordwa village in Rivne county „The Stankiewicz family lived next to the Smordewski forest, and apparently sometimes Polish partisans were hiding there. One of the «forest people» was the s/o Stankiewicz, Antoni (they called him Tońko). In the fall, someone reported the presence of partisans, a Ukrainian militia arrived. Some of them were shot on the spot, most of them were burnt in the apartment. Only Antoni's wife with a child (a boy of several months) survived, they arrested her and gave the child to a nursery. He stayed in Russia and grew up there too. His aunt Joanna Maliszewska lived in Koszalin. After the war, he came to Koszalin several times, and his main dish was «vodka». Antoni's brother, Valerian, lived in the neighborhood, after a few weeks the police came again and set fire to the other brother, this time no one survived”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of genocide – November and fall of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Giszczak Petronela nee Raczyńska, „Memories from Volhynia - Witosówka and its surroundings”; in: portal: Volhynia pages — web page: free.of.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2 families
min. 8
max. 12
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EXPLANATIONs
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