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
Szwejków
Podhajce pov., Tarnopol voiv.
contemporary
Shveikiv
Monastyryska rai., Ternopil obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
11
max.:
11
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
00055
date:
1943.01
site
description
general info
Szwejków
Two Poles were kidnapped and murdered by the Banderites: Władysław Łęski and Bronisław Skorc. „These judgments were approved by the Greek Catholic priest, Fr Onufrenko. They were issued to a large group of Polish” youth.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th Anniversary of the OUN-UPA genocide – January 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Wiązek Marian, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 770
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
00756
date:
1943.05.03
site
description
general info
Szwejków
[The Ukrainians] burned a 4–person Polish family alive: Rozalia Sobotkiewicz and her 3 children.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – May 1943, Spring 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
4
min. 4
max. 4
ref. no:
05395
date:
1944.02
site
description
general info
Szwejków
The Ukrainians kidnapped their Polish school friend, 20‑year‑old Władysław Łeński. They tortured him, cut the eagle's mark on his chest with a knife, then tied him by the legs to the bent trees that ripped him in two.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
05107
date:
1944.02.22
site
description
general info
Szwejków
On February 22, 1944, two Poles from NN were abducted.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Komański and Siekierka for the Tarnopol province (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2015, vol. 7
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
2
min. 2
max. 2
ref. no:
06127
date:
1944.03
site
description
general info
Szwejków
The Ukrainians murdered Bronisław Skorec, the church official.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
08537
date:
1944.11
site
description
general info
Szwejków
The Ukrainians murdered Antoni Jurewicz.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – November 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
1
min. 1
max. 1
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