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
Szpickiery
Lesko pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Szpickiery
Lesko cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
general info
locality abandoned
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
7
max.:
7
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
09552
date:
1945.03.21
site
description
general info
Szpickiery
[In a place known as Szpickiery n. Smrek] the UPA gang of „Wesely” sotnya murdered 7 Poles: grandparents and 5 grandchildren, which they put on pegs in the fence. Mieczysław Halik, a policeman, remembered that two other Polish families lived somewhere on one of the hills. „When we fell to the edge of the clearing, we saw one of the bandits literally hammering one of the pegs on which clay pots are normally hung in the countryside, a little girl. Four other children had died in a similar manner, and two old men caring for the children lay with their heads smashed. Two children were not yet two years old. The girl, the last to be driven on the stake, was still conscious and was opening her face twisted in pain, as if to ask for something, but only great tears streamed down her cheeks. A moment later, she also lost consciousness, her head dropped and her hair covered her tormented face”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Żurek Stanisław, „UPA in Bieszczady”, in: ed. II, Nortom publishing house, Wroclaw 2010, p. 59
There were two residential buildings in Szpickiery [n. Smrek], including a forester's lodge by the Bystry stream, inhabited by a forester, Ludwik Masłyk.
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:
7
min. 7
max. 7
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