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
Stężnica
Lesko pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Lesko cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
14
max.:
15
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
09137
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Stężnica
In the second half of 1944, they murdered 6 Poles from 2 families.
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:
6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
10785
date:
1945
site
description
general info
Stężnica
Six elderly Poles who did not leave the village disappeared without a trace.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1945 and 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
10084
date:
1945.06.20
site
description
general info
Stężnica
The Ukrainians murdered carter Michał Werbowicz.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: btx.home.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11190
date:
1946.07.16
site
description
general info
On the route Stężnica – Wołkowyja, Lesko county, the UPA murdered Antoni Pasławski. „On July 16, 1946. Antoni P., who was going to Wołkowyja to visit his family, went missing on the route from Stężnica to Wołkowyja. As the area was occupied by Ukrainian nationalist troops, it was presumed that he had died at their hands. The investigation in this case was completed on August 27, 2007 —formally discontinued”.
source: „IPN investigation into the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists committed against the Polish population in 1943-1947 in the former poviat Lesko”; in: Institute of National Remembrance, IPN Rzeszów, in: ref. No. S 69/07/Zi, Appendix 4
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – July 1946”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.02.24]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
11546
date:
1947.03.13
(during the night)
site
description
general info
Stężnica
Ukrainians murdered 1 Pole. „On the night of March 12–13, 1947, the UPA group attacked the village of Stężnic (Stężnica – S. Ż.) poviat Lesko, from where they kidnapped the village leader of this village Pasławski N., whom they hanged”.
source: Prus Edward, „Operation "Vistula"”, in: ed. IV, Wroclaw 2006, p. 292
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1947”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.03.02]
„[Here] Antoni Pacławski, former mayor of Radziejowa, was abducted by the Bandera followers”.
source: Jarosław Syrnyk, „Bieszczady Triangle. Thousand days and thousand nights of anarchy in Lesko poviat 1944-1947.”, in: ed. Libra PL Sp. z o.o., Rzeszów 2018, p. 353
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – year 1947”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2022.03.02]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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