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
Stary Sambor
Sambor pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Staryi Sambir rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Germans and Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
62
max.:
300
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
52
max.:
52
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00059
date:
1943.01
site
description
general info
In January 1943, Ukrainian policemen with the Germans arrested about 250–300 Poles in Stary Sambor, Felsztyn, Chyrów and Turka. At the beginning of February, they were taken to Lviv, and from there in a transport of about 800 people, to the concentration camp at Majdanek, which survived several people.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th Anniversary of the OUN-UPA genocide – January 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Szczygieł Józef, „I was one of the Lviv transport”; in: „We are witnesses. Memoirs of former Majdanek prisoners”, in: Lublin Publishing House, Lublin 1969, p. 112—146
The „The Ukrainians who were guarding the prisoners at Majdanek wore dark green uniforms with black collars, lapels, shoulder straps and cuffs at” sleeves.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th Anniversary of the OUN-UPA genocide – January 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Szczygieł Józef, „I was one of the Lviv transport”; in: „We are witnesses. Memoirs of former Majdanek prisoners”, in: Lublin Publishing House, Lublin 1969, p. 137—140
perpetrators
Germans and Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
250 – 300
min. 250
max. 300
ref. no:
03053
date:
1943.09.16–1943.09.17
site
description
general info
Stary Sambor
16 / 17.9. Stary Sambor. An armed robbery, a robbery attack on a pharmacy in Stary Sambor. Murdered: mother of the pharmacist Gritowska [?] Aged 70, cousin of the pharmacist NN aged 30.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1943, October 2 - Letter from the head of the PolKO office in Drohobycz addressed to the representative of the RGO in Lviv, containing a list of attacks and murders committed on the Polish population in this region”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/1, p. 291, 287—289
In Stary Sambor, Mr Grotowski's pharmacy was again attacked. After looting the movable property, the gang kidnapped the mother and wife of the said pharmacist. The corpses of the abductees were then found massacred in the nearby forest.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1943, September 26 - Report of the PolKO Delegation in Sambor on attacks on the Polish population in the Turka region - a local vision of PolKO representatives”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/1, p. 317—320
Mother (70) and cousin (30) of Mr. Stefan Grotowski, a pharmacist in St. Sambor (Mr. Grotowski himself survived by jumping out of a window from the 2nd floor).
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1943, September - Reports from the PolKO Delegations in Sambor and Stryj concerning attacks and murders of Poles”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/1, sh. 323, p. 12 – also: Central Archives of Modern Records, 47
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
03069
date:
1943.09.19–1943.09.20
site
description
general info
Stary Sambor
– "The mother was left with her belly ripped open on the floor. Father was in the field, he survived. He was with me later in the division. When he spoke about what he saw in the house, his eyes were unconscious and his mouth was foaming"."
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1943, October 2 - Letter from the head of the PolKO office in Drohobycz addressed to the representative of the RGO in Lviv, containing a list of attacks and murders committed on the Polish population in this region”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/1, p. 291, 287—289
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
ref. no:
09136
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Stary Sambor
[The Ukrainians] abducted and murdered 20 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
20
min. 20
max. 20
ref. no:
07057
date:
1944.05.14
site
description
general info
Stary Sambor
The UPAs robbed and burned 4 Polish farms and murdered 15 Poles, including 9 they burnt alive.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
15
min. 15
max. 15
ref. no:
07079
date:
1944.05.17–1944.05.18
site
description
general info
Stary Sambor
The Banderites robbed the house and kidnapped a Pole who was missing without a trace. „17 / 18.5. Stary Sambor [Sambor] Banda robbed Michał Trupkiewicz, and took Woźniak Antoni, 20 years old”, with him.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, May 25 - List of murders and attacks on the Polish population in the Drohobycz district and former counties: Samborski and Turczański drawn up at PolKO in Drohobycz”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16722/1, p. 373—374
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
09933
date:
1945.05.09–1945.05.10
site
description
general info
Stary Sambor
The UPA robbed 2 Polish houses and murdered or burned 14 Poles alive.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
14
min. 14
max. 14
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- The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
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