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
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
71
max.:
71
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
01875
date:
1943.07.16
site
description
general info
Szeroka
Since spring, Poles have been abducted one by one, after which the trace is lost. Polish hosts must feed the Upów village in the forest. Ukrainian neighbors make sure that the Poles do not run away from the village, they calm down. On July 16, they order them to gather in a forest clearing to „to protect them” from German pacification. The Poles sang „Beneath Thy Protection” and were murdered by the „Ukrainian partisans”. Next to it, another group of Poles, brought from Boroszyce, was murdered. For the next days, the hunt continues for the Poles in hiding, they tortured and killed those captured. At least 52 victims are known.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
at least 52
min. 52
max. 52
ref. no:
01939
date:
1943.07.18
site
description
general info
Szeroka
The Ukrainians murdered 3 Poles. A Ukrainian, Stachu Sołynynka, killed with a shovel two children of Jan Cwinarowicz saved from the attack on July 16: 15‑year‑old Maria and 10‑year‑old Czesław, whom „said” was hitting his head 5 times.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 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. 135
In addition, they shot 1 man.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – July 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:
02544
date:
1943.08.20
site
description
general info
Szeroka
[The Ukrainians] cruelly murdered three Polish families who survived the slaughter on July 16: the Kuźniarewicz family for 9, the Mrozowski family for 4 and the Popczuk family for 3, and they burnt the bodies in a barn – 16 Poles in total.
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:
16
min. 16
max. 16
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