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
Swaryczów
Dolina pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Rozhniativ rai., Stanislaviv/Ivano-Frankivsk obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
30
max.:
80
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
02501
date:
1943.08.15
site
description
general info
Swaryczów
Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: they murdered 39‑year‑old Józef Siarkiewicz–Hoszowski.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „The 75th anniversary of the genocide – August and the summer of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
05502
date:
1944.03.03
site
description
general info
Swaryczów
The Banderites murdered 6 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 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:
05637
date:
1944.03.13–1944.03.14
site
description
general info
Swaryczów
The Ukrainians murdered Mieczysław Hoszowski.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
06891
date:
1944.04
site
description
general info
Swaryczów
The Ukrainians murdered Tadeusz Zwierzyński.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
07058
date:
1944.05.14–1944.05.15
site
description
general info
The Ukrainians murdered several Polish families.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „News from the Eastern Lands”, no 8 (excerpts); in: „Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s”, in: Warsaw-Kiev 2005, vol. 4, part 2, p. 195 — web page: zbrodniawolynska.pl [accessible: 2021.04.11]
source: Institute of National Remembrance IPN, in: Kr. 075/9, vol. 1, sh. 252—254
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
few families
min. 8
max. 54
ref. no:
07073
date:
1944.05.16
site
description
general info
Swaryczów
The Banderites murdered 6 Poles, including a father with a 12‑year‑old son. See also: on the night of May 14/15.
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:
6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
07152
date:
1944.05.28
site
description
general info
Swaryczów
The Banderites murdered 7 Poles, including a father with 4 children: sons 3 and 5 and daughters 8 and 14; and 2 women, 40 and 43 years old. „Some time later I learned from my neighbors that the entire family of Stanisław Zwierzyniecki – parents and four children – had been abducted. According to the account of my stepmother, Antonina Szczekowska, who lives in Swaryczów, Zwierzyniecki was buried alive in a grove on the Łomnica River near Tuwałów” (Turzyłów was located in the Kaluski county.).
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Witelus Maria, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 58
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
7
min. 7
max. 7
ref. no:
09481
date:
1945.03.02
site
description
general info
Swaryczów
The Banderites murdered 4 Poles, 2 of them women, and a Ukrainian, the husband of one of these women.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
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