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
Szerokie Pole (Pochersdorf)
Stryj pov., Stanisławów voiv.
contemporary
Smolyanyi
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
116
max.:
116
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
09147
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Szerokie Pole (Pochersdorf)
The Ukrainians murdered 6 Poles.
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:
6
min. 6
max. 6
ref. no:
05562
date:
1944.03.09–1944.03.10
site
description
general info
Szerokie Pole (Pochersdorf)
The Upowcy murdered 110 Poles and burnt the village, including 25 families resettled from the village of Masuria, county Kalush.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 31
Next was Leon's wife in Paszkowy's garden, and the child torn on the fence.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Puzio Ludwik, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 84
During the attack on March 9, 1944, the entire family of Stanisław Dziechciarz (8 people) was murdered. They were burned alive at home […] Jan Guestor and his wife were horribly murdered in Szeroki Pole. They were impaled alive and so they ended their lives, and there were more such cases.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Znak Piotr, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 98
Near our yard, fifty meters away, there was a forage harvester and some machines, tools – scythes, not scythes. In this forage harvester, they killed a woman […] They grabbed an old woman and one was shooting. A scream at first, and then it was quiet. How much blood.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Seweryn Teresa, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 92
In Dolina, Swacha, the mayor and I immediately went to the Gestapo. The Germans were crying, I was even surprised, maybe they were from Poland, and they said: „We would show these Ukrainians, only our government does not allow us and we cannot do anything”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Puzio Kazimierz, recollections; in: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Różański Eugeniusz, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Stanisławów voivodeship”, in: Wroclaw 2008, p. 83—84
Children in the eyes of their parents were torn to pieces and thrown into the fire, also shot, burned, thrown into the fire.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: „1943, March 20 - Letter Wł. Bobrowski (PolKO Stryj) to the Director of the RGO in Krakow regarding the descriptions of the atrocities committed by Ukrainian gangs in the destruction of the Polish population”; in: National Ossoliński Institute, Wrocław, in: No. 16721/2, p. 25—26
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
110
min. 110
max. 110
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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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