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Roman Catholic parish
St Sigismund
05-507 Słomczyn
85 Wiślana Str.
Konstancin deanery
Warsaw archdiocese
Poland

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GENOCIDIUM ATROX

GENOCIDE perpetrated by UKRAINIANS on POLES

Data for 1943–1947

Site

II Republic of Poland

Świętocin

Włodzimierz Wołyński pov., Volhynian voiv.

contemporary

Turiisk rai., Volyn obl., Ukraine

general info

locality non—existent

Murders

Perpetrators:

Ukrainians

Victims:

Poles

Number of victims:

min.:

168

max.:

173

Location

link to GOOGLE MAPS

events (incidents)

ref. no:

03134

date:

1943.06–1943.09

(summer)

site

description

general info

Świętocin

The UPA took 3 Poles to the submarines, no trace of which was lost.

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:

3

min. 3

max. 3

ref. no:

02663

date:

1943.08.29

site

description

general info

Świętocin

The Orthodox feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: the UPA with local The Ukrainians with axes, pikes, saws for cutting trees, etc., murdered about 100 Poles. „The” Ukrainian guerrillas prepared a special type of weapon for the „fight”: long iron spikes with which „stabbed the Polish” occupiers hidden in straw or hay. They also took entire Polish families to a nearby forester's lodge and murdered them there. „In that forester's lodge there were a few small children nailed to the walls by their arms and legs, already dead”.

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]

source: Siemaszko Władysław, Siemaszko Ewa, „The genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population of Volhynia 1939 - 1945”, in: Warsaw 2000, p. 940

Witness Zofia Kowalczyk: „Everyone was at home. One of the neighbors, a Ukrainian, Musórka, went to a store nearby to do some shopping. – at one point he bursts into the house and says «your Leonka is dead». My mom's sister. Her husband was working in Germany at that time. after some time we look, and Leonka appears in the door. all bloody, head all clotted blood. as if someone had put her hat on – says Mrs. Zofia. It turned out that on the way she found Banderites who came from other areas. Before her eyes, they beat her children with a pitchfork: one was 9 months old, the other was three. She only survived because she lost consciousness. The torturers thought he was dead. When she regained consciousness, she covered the bodies of the children with a scarf. Mad with fear and pain, she sat all night in the nearby bushes to finally go to Kowalczyk. My father made the decision to flee to Maciejów, the nearest town where the Germans were stationed. – We came to the forest and there were shots heard. Daddy said we can't go now. We went to one Ukrainian acquaintance. We stayed with him until the night, but he was afraid. He said they would kill us and him. We went into the bushes, where we sat for many hours, then returned home again. They hid in a barn, in a hidden room, where a pig was also hidden from requisitioning. Mom and three children. My father was hiding elsewhere, dagger in hand. He said that when they came to murder them, he would still have time to kill two bandits. They heard the Bandera followers walking on the farm. They took the dog and chickens, they stole everything that was in the house, even the stove was dismantled. – One day he came to our hideout, risking his own life, young Vasyl from Kasian and says to his father: Karol, you must run away, because they will burn the barn, you will burn alive. and dad said again: we're going to Maciejów. We went out in the evening, went to the forest and walked all night. Near Maciejów, my dad threw the knife because he was afraid that the Germans would kill him on seeing the armed man. In the town near the church we are looking, and there is so much nation! People fled from neighboring villages – says Mrs. Zofia. There they got something warm to eat. Germans and local Poles arranged provisions and organized transport for the refugees. They were loaded onto coal wagons and transported to Chełm. – From my family living in Volhynia, 26 people died – Ms Zofia carefully lists. Only at the mother's closest cousin they murdered both adults and four children. Ms. Zofia and her family were saved by the escape”.

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]

source: „August day - Sunday, in the tiny colony of Świętocin in Volhynia”, searched and put in memory: Bogusław Szarwiło from the article: "I survived the Volhynia slaughter"; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: www.wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.04.11]

source: portal: Sub-Carpathian history — web page: www.podkarpackahistoria.pl [accessible: 2015.12.01]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

c. 100

min. 100

max. 100

ref. no:

03299

date:

1943.09

site

description

general info

Świętocin

A few days after the massacre on August 31, the UPA murdered a group of 25–30 Poles in a forester's lodge; „In that forester's lodge there were then a few small children nailed to the walls by their arms and legs, already dead”.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Siemaszko Władysław, Siemaszko Ewa, „The genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists on the Polish population of Volhynia 1939 - 1945”, in: Warsaw 2000, p. 940

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

25 – 30

min. 25

max. 30

ref. no:

02949

date:

1943.09.02

site

description

general info

Świętocin

The Ukrainians (including the locals) murdered 4 Polish families of 17 people by hitting the back of the head with a T–bar. They threw the dead and wounded into a lime pit and buried them: 2 men, 4 women and 11 children aged 1 to 16.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – September 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

17

min. 17

max. 17

ref. no:

03673

date:

1943.11.11

site

description

general info

Świętocin

The UPA massacred 23 Poles who had survived the previous massacre, including the whole family.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of genocide – November and fall of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

perpetrators

Ukrainians

victims

Poles

number of

textually:

23

min. 23

max. 23

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EXPLANATIONs

  1. Lack of info about the perpetrators in the description of a given event (Incident) indicates that the blame should be attributed to the perpetrators listed in general info section.
  2. The name of the site used during II Republic of Poland times indicates an official name used in 1939.
  3. English contemporary name of the site — in accordance with naming conventions used in Google Maps.
  4. Contemporary regional info about the site — if in Ukraine than in accordance to administrative structure of Ukraine valid till 2020.
  5. General explanations ⇒ click HERE.
  6. Assumptions as to the number of victims ⇒ click HERE.