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.:
0
max.:
129
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
04887
date:
1944.02.02
alternatively:
05.02.1944
site
description
general info
The UPA attacked the evacuation column of the Polish population from the town of Łanowce, about 2 kilometers long, cut off about 150 Poles, captured 129 people and smashed them with poles and stones. A German escort of 15 gendarmes escaped without fighting, apparently this was what the gendarmes had agreed with the UPA.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
Przybyłko Jan, 35 years old, Commandant of Schutzmannachaften [Eng. Protection Battalions] (i.e. auxiliary police) in Łanowce, murdered with his wife on February 2, 1944, during the UPA attack on a convoy of Poles between the village of Kuśkowce Wielkie [commune of Łanowce] and Śniegorówka / Śnihorówka [commune of Wiśniowiec]. According to the documents of the Central Welfare Council, murdered on February 5, 1944.
source: „Victim: Przybyłko Jan”; in: portal: 1943. Volhynia crime. Truth and memory., Institute of National Remembrance IPN, in: Database of Victims of Volhynia Genocide — web page: zbrodniawolynska.pl [accessible: 2022.02.28]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
129
min. 129
max. 129
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