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.:
200
max.:
500
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
01041
date:
1943.06.01
site
description
general info
Sochy
Ukrainian SS men with the Germans murdered about 200 Poles, including 30 children aged 3 months to 15 years, 55 women and 98 men (the number of victims is from 183 to 364 people). The crime was described by an eyewitness, Jan Socha: „From both ends of the village large columns moved inwards, from which bullets were falling and buildings were set on fire. In these columns were Germans and Ukrainians, all in uniform […] It was impossible to escape from the village, because it was surrounded and each escaped was killed by gendarmes standing on watch. The action lasted from 6.00 am to 10.00 am, after which the Germans left the burning village on signal. Nine planes flew then, dropping bombs in the middle of the village, and firing machine guns while flying low. There could have been 200 or more Germans and The Ukrainians at the time of this pacification. There were also: military police, as well as German and Ukrainian SS units. About 200–250 people were shot then, mostly men, although they did not spare anyone's life. The village was burnt down, except for 3 buildings. All the property of” residents burned down.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1943 June and the first half of the year”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Jastrzębski Stanisław, „Ukrainian nationalists genocide against Poles in the Lublin region in 1939-1947”, in: Nortom Publishing, 2007, p. 220 — web page: sbc.org.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
200 – 250
min. 200
max. 500
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