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 Niżna
Turka pov., Lwów voiv.
contemporary
Bieszczady cou., Subcarpathia voiv., Poland
general info
locality abandoned
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
42
max.:
42
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
09151
date:
1944
site
description
general info
Tarnawa Niżna
Gamekeeper Józef Jurczak, 55, was murdered in the yard of his forester's lodge by the UPA.
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:
1
min. 1
max. 1
ref. no:
07486
date:
1944.05–1944.06
site
description
general info
Tarnawa Niżna
The Ukrainians hacked with axes on the threshold of the house of the legionnaire Ludwik Gdowski.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – June 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:
07925
date:
1944.08
site
description
general info
Tarnawa Niżna
[The Ukrainians] murdered 10 Poles. „In Tarnawa Niżna there was a forester Hryniak, an Old Russian, married to a Polish woman who was a teacher at a local school. He was loyal to Poles and felt himself a Pole. For this he was murdered together with his wife and children. They were all thrown into the well (inf. W. Konstantynowicz)”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Rygiel Zbigniew, „Just a few examples”; in: „Gazeta Bieszczadzka”, in: No. 16/2000
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
10
min. 10
max. 10
ref. no:
08087
date:
1944.09
site
description
general info
Tarnawa Niżna
The Ukrainians murdered 30 Poles.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – September 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
30
min. 30
max. 30
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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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