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
Murders
Perpetrators:
Ukrainians
Victims:
Poles
Number of victims:
min.:
10
max.:
10
Location
events (incidents)
ref. no:
07926
date:
1944.08
site
description
general info
Tarnawa Wyżna
[The Ukrainians] murdered 10 Poles, including 5 people from Alojzy Wiluszyński's family: „The next night in the morning (that is already on 17th 1944) I secretly returned home. I had to be as careful as possible because people knew about my activities, and I was a Pole. The view I found was terrifying. All my family was left with only blood stains and my house was plundered and robbed. I have never found the bodies of my closest relatives, taken to the nearby gorges. My family's parents, Michał and Emilia, sister Ewa, sister Stefania and her husband Jan Kochaniec, died. This brutal murder was carried out by a militia under the command of Ivan Szwed (a former corporal of the Polish Army of Ukrainian nationality, residing in Tarnawa Niżna). The Greek Catholic pope, Iwan Iwanio, Tarnawa Wyżna Parish was complicit in the crime. Pop guaranteed my family safety (his son Josef, a graduate of the Lviv Polytechnic University, was in the leadership of the UPA staff). Pop thus lulled our vigilance and set my family to death. Let me mention that Ivan Szwed, with the help of the Ukrainian police, liquidated the Jewish population in the Roztoki — Borsuczyny gorge (Alojzy Wiluszyński, Warsaw 2009)”.
source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – August 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]
source: Derwich Antoni; in: Żurek Stanisław, „UPA in Bieszczady”, in: ed. II, Nortom publishing house, Wroclaw 2010, p. 239
perpetrators
Ukrainians
victims
Poles
number of
textually:
10
min. 10
max. 10
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