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
Szczepiatyn
Tomaszów Lubelski pov., Lublin voiv.
contemporary
Tomaszów Lubelski cou., Lublin voiv., Poland
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
68
max.:
92
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
05786
date:
1944.03.25
site
description
general info
Szczepiatyn
The Banderites murdered 17 Poles aged 8–86.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Konieczny Zdzisław, „Polish-Ukrainian relations in what is now Poland in the years 1918-1947, Wrocław 2006”, in: , p. 179
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
17
min. 17
max. 17
ref. no:
05796
date:
1944.03.26
site
description
general info
Szczepiatyn
The Banderites robbed and burned Polish farms and murdered 27 Poles, including 8 women and 8 children aged 3–15.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
18 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Motyka Grzegorz, „So it was in Bieszczady. Polish-Ukrainian battles in 1943-1948.”, in: Volumen Publishing House, Warsaw 1999, Warsaw 1999, p. 195
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
27
min. 27
max. 27
ref. no:
05833
date:
1944.03.28
site
description
general info
After the slaughter of the village of Tarnoszyn, on March 18 – ten days later – with the participation of Ukrainian police officers under the command of Ivan Maślij – the UPA finished the work. The remaining Poles were arrested and, under the guise of having their personal data written down, taken to the police station in Szczepiatyn. A dozen or so inhabitants of Tarnoszyn and Szczepiatyn were murdered in a roadside ditch. And: Next to Tarnoszyn, after the massacre, the commandant of the Maslij police station shot 18 survivors, Maslij, who was already the commander of the Szczepiatyn police station.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: web page: www.roztocze.net [accessible: 2010.07.09]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
18
min. 18
max. 18
ref. no:
06217
date:
1944.04.01
site
description
general info
Ukrainian policemen from Szczepiatyn abducted 30 Poles (women, children and the elderly) and shot them in the village of Szczepiatyn.
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:
30
min. 30
max. 30
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