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
Tarnawa
Dobromil pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Ternava
Staryi Sambir rai., Lviv obl., Ukraine
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
13
max.:
13
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
08482
date:
1944.10–1944.11
site
description
general info
Tarnawa
The Ukrainians murdered a Polish family of five.
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:
5
min. 5
max. 5
ref. no:
09333
date:
1945.01
site
description
general info
Tarnawa
An interview with Janina Skotnicka née Krępulec from the village of Tarnawa. „Victims: 1. Kotula, no name, ca. 50. 2. Jan Owoc, ca. 40. 3. Mrs. Leśniak, mother of breastfed infants (2 boys – twins, or children with a very small age difference) 4. Babiarz Aniela, ca. 40. 5. Majer Józef, ca. 30. The victims are buried in the Tarnawa cemetery”. Supplement: „In January 1945 kidnapped by the UPA – 6. MAŚLACZŃSKI Czesław (Maślaczyński? – comment by: Stanislaus Żurek). Tortured, he had to dig a grave for himself. He is buried near the forest near Dobromil. 7. Majer? Mayer Józef 8. Nowakowski Józef. They are buried in the cemetery in Dobromil, but their graves do not exist at present. Witnesses: Mieczysław Krępulec and Feliks Królicki, residing in Besko county Sanok, Janina Skotnicka. residing Wroclaw”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Kopańska-Konon Iwona, „An interview with Janina Skotnicka née Krępulec from the village of Tarnawa”
They report that in Tarnawa, the area of Dobromil, in January 1945, a Ukrainian gang plundered 4 farms and murdered 11 NN people.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – January 1945”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Siekierka Szczepan, Komański Henryk, Bulzacki Krzysztof, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Lviv voivodship 1939-1947”, in: Wroclaw 2006, p. 143
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
8
min. 8
max. 8
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