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
Stryj
Stryj pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Stryi municipality rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
47
max.:
49
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
07285
date:
1944.06.02
site
description
general info
Stryj
[The Ukrainians] murdered a Polish family of four, refugees from the village of Derżów, county Zydaczów. And: „Stryj, on June 2 at At 20.30, the tax officer Ferdinand Mazurak and his wife Emilia were murdered. Children 5 years and 5 months old remained”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1944, July 3 - Letter from PolKO in Stryj to the RGO in Krakow containing a list of attacks on the Polish population in the Stryj, Żydaczów and Rohatyn poviat from May to June 1944”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/2, p. 33—34
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
08478
date:
1944.09–1944.11
site
description
general info
An interview with Mr. Kazimierz Babula. Mr. Kazimierz also mentioned the deaths of Marysia Turbak and Marysia Kotulska. The girls, women from Łuków, went to Stryj in a military car with the Russians. All of them died behind Żurawno by the Banderites. It was in the fall of 1944. The bodies of the girls and soldiers were found only in the spring of 1945, in the forest in front of Stryj. They were covered with branches.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Burdzy Franciszek; in: „Notebooks from Łuków”, in: No. 11—12, October 2005 - December 2006 — web page: www.waly.brzegdolny.pl [accessible: 2022.04.06]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
08556
date:
1944.11
site
description
general info
Stryj
According to the reports of the Polish underground, in November 1944, 173 people died in the Stanisławów voivodeship of Lviv (Stryj – 11).
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Hryciuk Grzegorz, „UPA actions against Poles after the re-occupation of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Red Army in 1944”; in: Libionka Dariusz, Motyka Grzegorz (ed.), „Anti-Polish operation of the OUN-UPA 1943-1944. Facts and interpretations”, State Archive of Lviv Oblast, in: DALO, 5001/2/32, Warsaw 2002, sh. 74
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
11
min. 11
max. 11
ref. no:
09139
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Stryj
The Ukrainians murdered about 30 Poles on the roads near the city.
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:
30
min. 30
max. 30
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EXPLANATIONs
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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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